Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (February 5th 2009) 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.

Confining a child, but not upstairs! (9)

Players and poets (7)

Singer's invention sounds like a drill (6,7)

Were these Marathon winners possibly Asian, then? (9)

Primary part of a monogram (7)

Translator of "The German Eating Fish" (7)

New directions signs for Channel (7)

Excellent wine in decline (6)

King had this one ambition (5)

Central one of 28 (6)

Original trees at forest's end (5)

Almost general tutorials (7)

Close blind (5)

They have pockets for cigars and change (9)

Swear word (7)

A Scottish couturier returns without mercury (7)

Very nasty food after fine cocktail (8)

One weighed down by scruples (7)

Horse among mules out for run (7)

Keen little prince (4)

Fruit that's big in New York (5)

Exotic sacred trees (6)

Where bank directors make their cuts (10)

It's pretty to behold what Platonic friends discuss at leisure (4-2-8)

Where the government is on display? (7)

Badly arranged sailing in familiar sea (10)

See 12

Edge of the tennis court? (9)

God's hybrid rose (4)

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