Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 19th 2013) 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.

Censorious to a dangerous degree? (8)
Dismiss ministers, a sign of contrition (9)
Runaway affairs? (6)
Star of the Magic Circle? (8)
Enormous disaster struck it (7)
One takes no end of cash in, finishing with nothing (6)
It makes one wild what people do when they retire (3,4)
Show preference for old penthouse (4-2)
American detained by courts in European country (7)
Said to be celebrated (8)
Expenses legally incurred (5)
Ring starts nervous reaction in the ear (4)
Relative found somewhere in the south of France, we hear (5)
Workers given fish — a gesture of goodwill (9)
Bottle opener and drinks in packs (5)
Amenity switched to an unspecified date (7)
A card cheat may be so described (5)
It goes up with inflation (7)
Soldier's an expert swimmer (9)
Saucepan's ready for cooking what this has killed (7)
Commercial address brings high esteem (9)
Enter game play, making contract (9)
Saucy antics? (6)
Worker in the prairie producing fruit (8)
Exact money (9)
Unfinished aircraft design (4)
Don't cheat in two forms of leisure activity (4,4)
Think in depth (6)
Aim ambitiously for praise, being wretched (6)
Gets more than one's share of froth with this measure of alcohol (8)