Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 17th 2000) 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.
| Telephone receiver will provide a form of protection (4,5) |
| Inclined to speak fast (5) |
| I have innate artlessness (7) |
| Calm sea (7) |
| Give way under pressure (5) |
| But players may be seated here in the park (9) |
| Offering no resistance all the same (15) |
| A fictitious nomination (9) |
| Run out of pictures to back (5) |
| A grizzly infant? (4,3) |
| Neat attendant (7) |
| Conservative-Labour rift (5) |
| Journalist's work needs to be bang on time (9) |
| Spirit photograph that takes the biscuit? (6-4) |
| The sort of speech that gets reported (8) |
| Insult by leaving a tip (6) |
| It's bent on submission (4) |
| Sly-looking chap (7,3) |
| Makes a timely entrance? (6,2) |
| A binding affair, perhaps (6) |
| Notice part of the ear (4) |
| Where publicans may be locked up (6,4) |
| He is used to holding the lead (3,7) |
| Cat Enid and I groomed for show (8) |
| Sacked, no doubt (2,3,3) |
| Gloss over title in the Spanish style (6) |
| King - Lear, perhaps? (6) |
| Please start (4) |
| A head on one's shoulders (4) |