Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 24th 2012) 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.

See 8
A slow type, quick as you can! (4)
Beat cheat that's passed away (5)
Writer pens right magic word, only somewhat odd stuff (4-1-4)
Metal-plated present inside (7)
Plane perhaps carrying first of applicants in for The Apprentice (7)
Shift work in retail going up, their prices down (6,7)
8 1 across, it's suggested? That's not cricket! (4,9)
Drink keeping staff close (5,2)
Smelly old spot to squeeze poured forth (7)
Drink with cool ingredient? Little appreciative word for food (9)
Expression I love: "Dusky shrouds" (5)
Bunga bunga party ends for Silvio, power ebbing away (4)
During winless season, foal at Ayr, perhaps, becoming juvenile (9)
Revealing top error, public transport (4,4)
Drink second short (5)
1/0 feeble odds, awfully slow work at the same time (2,3,4,5)
Crusader's companion overcoming infidels initially with a plant (7)
Leads written up about paper that's shot (7)
Calm around government's leadership? It's going the other way, that's plain (9)
Ailing during dip, king pulled out of backstroke, swimming in pool (6,9)
A colonic ailment less constant, requiring treatment that's soothing (8,6)
Bishop wearing expensive jewellery keeping away (9)
For example, pay good after a raise for chef's assistant (3,5)
Brown off to buttonhole Blair once for a high post (7)
Storm low overhead, keeping boats secured (7)
Classic film's last word taps into anyone's heart (6)
Old rag in gift boxes (5)