Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (September 17th 2003) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 28 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Girl beaten, but by no means confounded (9)

Not seldom met with in soft endearments (5)

Tone down a paint (7)

Dream of clergyman on lake (7)

Contended for backing of French four (4)

Direction taken by front vessel? (10)

Having more relish, trite as it may seem (7)

Bird which fawns? (7)

Leave soldiers to start division in France (10)

See the French one on low marsh ground (4)

He is notoriously hard on former player (7)

Secret container in a strange setting (7)

Fix again part of state servant's retirement (5)

Instrument to measure study in Hertfordshire (9)

Precious stone for refined girl? (10,5)

Inoffensive weapon left in Nazi leader's possession (8)

Watery pigment? (4)

Bird finding warmth in river (8)

Worshipped by a party radical (6)

The opposite of talk (8)

Formality of leading performer at church (6)

Might Pinter later mean to become an MP? (5,10)

Provoke girl to take part in strange rite (8)

One in a hundred may be a weed (8)

Retraction by friend in poem (8)

Reconstruction of Paris with energy wins commendation (6)

Market expression for a girl (6)

Boasted to the ship's company (4)

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