Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 12th 2010) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Essential element of jam trade (7)
Launch of biography (uncompleted) by posh person (4-3)
Label report of familiar ex-captain (5)
Able to take part in sport, preserving body (9)
Night visitor with cash for discarded item of dining equipment (5,5)
Soften back massage, taking in middle of shoulders (4)
One wearing tailored "tar" strides, which are awful to get into (4,7)
Scoff at Delhi's odd, non-independent support for capital punishment (3,8)
Goo: youngster swallows litre! (4)
Bush given a life without need, tension and Henry (10)
Top of London Eye can't, when revolving without energy/gas (9)
Marie Stopes's housing sign (5)
There's nothing in waste, having lost US city (7)
Nutty quality Dan introduced randomly into jam (7)
Legless and short? They're just the opposite (6)
Secure a job, almost (6)
Line in scrap, which might be cut for a cockpit (6,4)
Doubly firm, top grade drink (5)
Scour rocks after meat and drink (9)
Charge round opening of roof on the house (4)
Produced too many eggs with a coating (8)
Visionary sporting tutu: first time away (8)
Plastic, offbeat, direct comedian (6,4)
Almost sated inside, monarch's stand-in is radiant (9)
Daughter, hit with much cash, backs dramatist (8)
Determined underworld criminal (8)
River rats patrol (6)
"Number's up" is spiritual knowledge (6)
Finest 50,000 sheets of paper in modern terms (5)
A spinner's short period in work (4)