Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 22nd 2002) 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.

Glasses raised at L'Opera (9)

Wood is damaged by one (5)

The batsman's occupation (7)

Man in a mother country (loosely speaking) (7)

They curl and lift cubes (5)

Irish group playing Bach roles (9)

Les canadiens, for example (6,9)

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor (9)

Run downhill (5)

Where a houseman rules? (7)

Fought as law bred free-for-all (7)

Subject is: "The Discontented Mule" (5)

Investment specialist? (9)

They charge others, even pets (10)

I left command to the artillery (8)

A bread-like fruit (6)

Some American depositors backed this inventor (4)

Galloping cancer seen in second birth (10)

Clergyman Paul, an American hero going to North Dakota (8)

Spotted in play, its effect is disastrous (6)

It's a wild year for a cat? (4)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense! (10)

They keep the hose straight (10)

The line of those in the playground (8)

Positive kind of zero? On the contrary! (8)

Landing strip (6)

A lake not easily ruffled (6)

Christopher Marlowe's last predator (4)

Crazy flutters (4)

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