Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 23rd 1999) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

It's said to produce a smile (6)

Investments frame-up exposes people to ridicule (6)

Completes games of bowls (4)

Actors are prepared to appear in it (4-2,4)

Craft project (6)

Fruit with coverings - they're bananas (8)

Courses for craftsmen (9)

Block and tackle? (4)

Handy aid to warmth (4)

In which to plant bulbs? (5,4)

Bird of ill omen to an old criminal? (8)

Commercial break cut off (6)

Instantly, but not there and then (4,3,3)

Where barristers get refreshers? (4)

Draw, perhaps, ten of diamonds (6)

A man's calling for Australian port (6)

Choral work can go on so long (7)

Where Westphalians may go to eat in Germany (5)

Possibly show me love in one way or another (7)

Responsible for a convict getting privileges (6)

Quixotic writer never acts in play (9)

Expressed one's views - loudly? (5,2)

Taking the plunge when not suited for it (6-7)

In effect, I turn out to be capable (9)

Man having to admit set-up is kind of cross (7)

Principal method of progress (7)

One's childhood in one's imagination (7)

Such a railway may make a fair profit (6)

Put a curb round gelding's head and get control (5)

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