Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 18th 2017) 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.

Bass has warning about fish in opera (6,7)
Murder, with bad language beforehand (6,3)
Cross capital, say, to give evidence (9)
Silly me, sure a fiddle featured in opera (3,10)
Setter, I'm cross about 7 (9)
Court summons gangster caught having sex earlier (5)
A newly invented word, eg acoge? (7)
Strategy No 11 for an idiot (5)
Book by author with no energy blockages (7)
Found one soldier in elaborately decorated housing (9)
Brilliance of one of Elgar's Variations (5)
Doctor pays out to this examining body? (7)
Having no starter, drink Scotch (5)
Nuts about you, said film star (3,4)
Heavenly choir's first seen after DIY mishap leads to bad back (7)
Provision for baby agreed during brief correspondence (7)
Absorbing content from singer-songwriter (9)
Tips off cruel schoolmaster? That's odd (5)
Love rat often providing inspiration for poet (5)
Where Puck gets a lot of stick, stalking female sculptor (5)
A choreographer's entertaining friend that's French statesman (9)
Saving money excited holding company (7)
Führer's edict ruined unknown opera (3,10)
Muesli, a little yogurt, nuts — heaven! (7)
Tiny Tim's first single, oddly playing around America right now (9)
Plant herb, not rose, around ravine (9)
17 stuck halfway through Paul, Tramp, Vlad, even Rufus? Yes, initially (5)
More work required on song that's included with German opera (6,7)