The Guardian Cryptic August 5th 2009 Crossword Clues • Crossword Tracker

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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Initially an abstainer going round trees (2,5)
Fabrications about remote battles (7)
Wasn't a performer in "The African Queen" (4)
Forward or circulating, drink coffee I make (10)
Bow of sailing boat in outline (6)
See 24
One sort of letter said to indicate confession (6)
Hospital on the box which begins in Jerusalem (5,4)
Emphatic refusal of oxygen: "Enjoy!" was misconceived (2,3,4)
Single payment to self-employed workers for half a season (4,3)
Emphatic refusal, one for Blair: rule only when reformed (3,2,4,5)
Table fork used in the soup? (4,5)
See 17
Where to treat one held in endless embrace (6)
Sound of water moved by what steers a lot of ships (8)
Valley and river of noble descent join up (7)
Emphatic refusal where I might hope for some mourning (4,2,4,4)
In France I enter cup match backed by fool across the border (5)
Gingerbread, good company, empty saloons here in America (7,3)
Count about right: an idiot in bother just as always happens (13)
See 16
Putting gloss on news by a companion, one of the Greens (7)
Literary present from box office with agreement to receive information (4,5)
Abridgment of the first letter to Araucaria (7)
Work keeping unhealthy early hours — it's wicked (3,4)
See 3
Understated refusal: add "I'm not" for Cartesian inference? (1,4,5,2)
Height nought feet — not good to go up maintaining that (7)
Queer chappies lacking ecstasy for Lesbian (7)

August 5th 2009 The Guardian Cryptic crossword answers