Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 17th 2002) 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.

Number of singers about fifty (7)
From orphan to mother - that's the spirit! (7)
Ecclesiastical title getting high honour is poison (5)
Exclusive physicist in water needs waterproof (9)
Male has trouble with note about female model in first boat (4,2,3,5)
Love is painful when wrongly directed (4)
Conclusive instructors of actors in film (2,6)
Shrub with 6 and "I say, a moving grove" (8)
Tick over - no good? (4)
Union negotiator puts down indicator about one in fury with comrade (8,6)
Old tiara bought initially off the back of a lorry (9)
Comment of stable relationship among those next door? (5)
Harlot has gold - which is in character? Not quite (7)
Theme that has to be mastered (7)
Look out from hiding-place? (4)
Gunner with a stripe provides a cobbler with a minder (5-10)
Cure for extreme dyslexia (6)
Don't punish the French gentleman (3,3)
Role call: solution, fiery exit line (8,4)
Promptitude, city style, to embrace the right (8)
It isn't given to us, they say: leave wooden bits out (2,4,3,2,4)
One delving below the surface without fear - a psychologist? (4-6)
The big guns of rock (5,5)
Flighty creature finds berries on the willow (5,3)
Bellowed, kind of sneezed, and whistled (Alice): to urge boat to move (8)
Homes for bloke in rising water (6)
Associate goblin with aristocrat (6)
See 5 (4)