Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 14th 2014) clues of The Guardian Speedy crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 22 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Tanned and coarsened from being outdoors (7-6)

Spanish fizz... (4)

...French fuzz! (8)

Capital of Arkansas (6,4)

Explosive device prone to backfiring – figuratively (when hoisted?) (6)

Corporal punishment (6)

Finish, wind up (2,4,4)

Final crushing defeat (8)

Flamboyance (4)

Told tales (6-7)

Meaner XI (anag) (8)

'----- of the Town': one receiving the acclaim of one's peers (5)

Brainiac (7)

Five-stringed musical instrument (5)

Citizen of the 49th state of the USA (7)

Jane Austen's fourth novel (1815) (4)

Kick start (8)

Surrounding, enveloping (7)

Eric -------, Manchester United idol of the 1990s (7)

Dig deeply (5)

Seize forcibly (5)

(Usually) dry desert riverbed (4)

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• Witch's hex
• Volkswagen Polo discovered as girlfriend goes outside
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• Sir Alan Parker on the radio, maybe to add positive spin?
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• Part of goal is to stop getting angry at the outset
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• Point gun
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• Observed
• Ministers extremely cranky when taking on large amount of work
• Wading bird
• Dashboard
• A smaller amount
• Intrepid
• Sort of home and not home

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• Apple tablets
• Minn. summer hours
• Wall Street figure
• "Neon or xenon, e.g."
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• Leek's kin
• Martial art
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• Sweetie
• Boomer’s kid
• They're raised in a toast
• County beside Manchester
• Grand Ole Opry performer ... or a hint to 17-/18-Across and 23- and 36-Down
• "Milk snake, e.g."
• """___ upon the shore..."": T.S. Eliot"
• Herbal brew
• Intestinal ailment.
• Sophia of 'Two Women'
• "Shortens, as a tail"
• Opposing army
• Plow pullers
• Quite pleased