The Guardian Cryptic August 25th 2009 Crossword Clues • Crossword Tracker

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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 28 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Holy man given cover, protected by mother (7)
Manifestations of lust rued by each involved (10)
Work out if urge is wrong (6)
Saint's blemish (4)
Occur as lapse into sin (4)
Bad errors among today's clues and answers (5,6,4)
Concentrates on removing head of church in sect (7)
Person suffering from 3? He's played badly, without energy (10)
In demo, tersely, they dramatically express anger etc (7)
Church's including former students in defamatory statements (9)
Imperfect, perhaps — with a couple of 8, following part of 1 (5)
Finished with school, say, showed gluttony by having done this (9)
Person breaking one of 1, mounted on racehorse (8)
Movie in which covetousness is finally denounced (3,12)
Secures what's belonging to a part of church, we hear (8)
Misrepresent a very English saint in essay (8)
Opening hospital for mammal (5)
Absolve old man in former sect heading east (9)
Locating envy, say, in begrudging guy, primarily (6)
College named after sinner — that sounds sentimental (8)
Animals banding together is what leads to destruction (5)
Unusually honest player of 23 in 1 (6)
Reckoned 1 or 8, for example, was important (7)
A bishop and saint contrived to avoid vice, maybe (7)
Some head for place of worship (6)
He led his race, but fell in sight of the finish (5)
Epic, not totally true, perhaps, such as 1 (7)
Pray with chap after conversion, holding old scriptures (9)

August 25th 2009 The Guardian Cryptic crossword answers