Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 20th 2006) clues of The Guardian Speedy crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 26 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Scotland's largest city (7)

Verbatim report of UK parliamentary proceedings (7)

Move in a twisting way (7)

Specimen (7)

Strip of wood (5)

Sharpener (9)

Allegory (9)

Celebrate (5)

Roman city destroyed in 79AD (7)

In music, a note equal to half a minim (7)

Action that backfires (3,4)

Entrance (7)

Stare in a stupid way (5)

Auditorium (5)

Do something thoroughly (2,3,5,3)

Caper (6)

Suffering similar circumstances (2,3,4,4)

Treelike tropical grass (6)

------ Churchill, French war heroine (6)

Carrying board (4)

Collar (4)

Draw liquid through a tube (6)

Second (6)

Spike of frozen water (6)

Show in or out (5)

Comprehensive (5)

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• See 12 Across
• Recalled strike times: rather hard in places
• Hot with desire, a creature waiting to move in?
• Naevus
• Mistrusted
• Cuts in half
• Very hungry
• Newly-prominent delivery company, very sharp
• Unrelenting
• Agreement: there’s damage on rear of dinghy
• Passage
• Fish eggs
• Heads for chilled beer, but accepting another drink a bit
• Put off a lot of individuals touring 14
• Most precious
• Intimidate
• Risqué
• Robespierre, perhaps frequently beheaded servant
• Tests
• Dropping (TV show)
• All in agreement
• Elegant clothes? Yes, and bust will look remarkable
• Unit of length
• Passes into law
• Monk

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• Eritrea, unsettled after losing leading athlete, has to withdraw (6)
• Flight component
• A resting place
• Includes on an email
• like passwords, hopefully
• Dog you could call "Rocky"?
• An iron-clad reason for not buying luxuries? (8)
• Undertake, with "out"
• Sheeplike
• Temper
• Where to get a different plane
• Unappreciative individual (7)
• Fifties carpet
• Poorness of English team, half-heartedly shamefaced (8)
• 'Dang!'
• Minerva alias
• "Emma Frost portrayer in ""X-Men: First Class"""
• Juicy fruit
• Possessions of a fish?
• Miner concern?
• Accounting check
• Pickle
• Lacking in blood-iron
• Dory
• "Clarifying, as a subject"