Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 31st 2006) 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.

Tick off day when a beautiful creature's around (8)
Setter's film about love incapable of the long view (6)
Split, not junction, as indicator of staff (4)
Magician from 1 or 16 and from 2 and 21 (6,2,2)
Numbered equipment for little beast (6)
Rome's Rome, possibly, not English as she was in 18 19 (3,5)
Cold food - pray to follow, say? (7)
Ken's spring exam? (7)
Setter treats himself to new beginning in opera (8)
Transporter on holiday? (6)
Baker to friends, with Southern general North in records (6-4)
A hyperbolic function is a blunt instrument (4)
Glass paper? (6)
Changing gear after short distance at the wheel? (2,6)
Queen of the South? (8)
Comment of friend on the web (4)
West Indies lives twice where losing is impossible (3-3)
Rootstock is where rye 'angs out, they say (7)
Friend entertaining relations to a heavenly meal (8)
Corresponding with doctor, trademark in house unfinished (10)
Energy of Spanish and Babylonian towns (6)
New pictures of team without a poem in lake (4,6)
Capital near 24, possibly (8)
Book has a bad French translation done by an idiot ... (1,7,2,5)
See 18
... and the return of the last chamois (2,4)
Split piece with second piece split (6)
Fruit with pincers (4)