Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 23rd 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.

Lover said to be a violin player (4)
One wanders round hospital for waste containers (8)
Make a mistake with commission (6)
Help the Spanish composer (6)
Official wear for Unionists touring Ulster (5)
Drop in standards scratching head in church (4)
Ring for stout when touring eastern Sweden (7)
Strange dialect in fort­ress (7)
Snakes and their associates decapitated (6)
Girl in a state (8)
Girl has craft and works hard (6)
Tenor collated information for physicist (8)
Egghead pays attention in group when running through (10)
Male stand-in in audition for play (3,7)
Charge journalist raised contribution (5)
Welcoming lovebird's wild dream (4-5)
Woman caught strumpet with note (9)
Grown-up is without artifice, initially, or is a sycophant (8)
Old Bob illuminated the opening (4)
Fellow leaves one instrument for another (4)
Cheat suddenly to reform (5-6)
Detachment resident? It's off! (11)
Creature of the English countryside (5)
Worker met Sandra dancing (9)
Famous craft worker in the old country (5,5)
Haulier returned and settled back with sweetheart (could be withdrawn) (10)
Restaurant for staff officers by a lake (9)
Maddened by exploding grenade (7)
Opportunist finds heroin in house (7)
Curtains some made at home (5)