Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 12th 2011) 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.

Depicting characters performing in play, or art (9)
Frenchman in a grubby vest (4)
People wanting a new landlord (8)
Got close, earned review (6)
Add pages in a final section? (6)
Girl will entertain no alternative site for Hamlet (8)
Yet one may be at one's lowest on them (6)
Lively parties given by mum in lodgings (8)
Love in the air? Stick around for marriage (8)
Gets satisfaction out of religious work (6)
When people can look forward to retirement (8)
Reasons for which people fight (6)
Expert — for a doctor, nothing to it (6)
Prepare for take-off? (8)
Travel after star of film and TV (4)
In some respect a clever presentation (9)
Fruit, soft and well-rounded (5)
King and two biblical characters free of duty (7)
Account being overdrawn, had to move fast (5)
Keen, say, to make bets (7)
What could make a party go with a swing (9)
Longed for time to take up study (7)
This military order looks fine (4,5)
Dog under piano consumes remnant of food (9)
They may be found working in steamship at sea (9)
Used for hanging pirate captain on vessel? (7)
Greet us, perhaps, with a wave (7)
Acquit a drunk, now living on water (7)
A young animal has it in some measure (5)
Call up a woman, a case for approval (5)