Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 17th 2008) clues of The Guardian Quick crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 26 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Theatrical production featuring songs and dancing (7)

Illustrative material in publication (7)

Strong flavouring often used in sweets (7)

Harangue (7)

Unifying motif (5)

Large sleeping room (9)

Lying down (9)

Shrubby area of open country (5)

Root vegetable (7)

Corrupt (7)

Brimstone (7)

Of advanced years (7)

Intended (5)

Hit hard - pinch (5)

Green liqueur (5,2,6)

Framework for scaling, usually portable (6)

Staid, unimaginative person (5-2-3-3)

Spud (6)

Made with barely sufficient material (of clothes) (6)

Conceal (4)

Smallest in litter (4)

Rest (6)

Coagulate (of milk) (6)

Large realm (6)

Frame for drying clothes (5)

Evergreen tree associated with Christmas (5)

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• Explanations of meaning
• School children
• Insightful comment made when disposable item has part removed from both ends
• Rupture
• Vessel's active measure of speed or acceleration
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• Tea cake
• Beginning
• Possibly German internet domain facing difficult problem
• Illness
• Just over half of mathematical subject ultimately taught throughout American city
• Climbing plant
• Bar bill
• Two parts of the UK, one country
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• Able to be dissolved

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• Put in flap provided with fabric covering (7)
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• Sweetie
• Al —, US motor racing driver; 1987 Indianapolis 500 winner
• Wobble
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• Employer of Mulder and Scully
• Mature married woman
• Formal discussions
• Fall bloom
• Growth
• Relish
• "Green lights in space, so to speak"
• hangs in midair
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• Heredity unit
• Opposite of pos.
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