Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 1st 2008) 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.

"French diet", says de Gaulle for one (6,7)
Claim made by spa without aspiration (8)
Material swelling up? That's understood (8,2)
Doctor, getting to work on solution, communicates (5,1,4)
Rock stars seem somehow to be relics of a past age (6,7)
Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors (10)
Learner, in fits and starts, discovering activity on course (4,6)
Bookkeeper in lawsuit after error? (4,4)
Blame accepted by doctor taking a drink (6)
Couturier backing embroidered veils (4)
Pickle or jam in the dining room (4)
McBeal supporter (4)
Fred and Adele putting energy into a series of steps (8)
Much appreciated by card players? (1,5,4)
Filter provided in street (4)
Delay in progress requiring courage and audacity (10)
Ladies' fingers up to scratch artist (4)
Augustus who painted an evangelist (4)
Mere appearance of fish that hurts! (6)
Fib about characters in script - it may be discounted (4,5)
Film-maker needing specs, oddly, in 20 (8)
One who applauds directors may be employed in film-making (12)
Was police chief noxious? (6)
Warner making a rare film (4,5)
Holiday destination in Balearic Islands: zany antics introduced (5)
Baroque dances in Strasbourg, I guess (6)
Ten to one, for example - a time to enter port (5)
Cow that's converted ignores hell (5,7)