Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 15th 2008) 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.

Astray on the ocean (2,3)
Table arrangement for slimmer starting on diet? (7,4)
African belt has flipping external borders (5)
One has little time to cover history of painting technique (7)
A dramatist carried on like this, looking back (7)
No one cheers - pop singer retreats, howling (9)
Binders known by old hands (5)
Follow eastern bigwig in Venice (4)
Order a lot of water for Old Nick? (10)
Family doctor warns about seafood (4,6)
Take up residence in a Yorkshire town (6)
Spain guarantees recreation for elderly people (15)
Local leader, European or African (8)
A flower Theseus regularly picked? (4)
Queen or rook captured? That may be a false move (5)
Annoyed, having come to a climax, so to speak (6)
Fool a long way off, missing the first or second? (9)
Where teams play for sufficient reasons (7)
One may be employed in zoo, dungeon and conference centre (6)
A decent reform, as established by law (7)
Dreadful lies about Ham being outcast son of Abraham (7)
Dinner - without noise, without wine - is less pleasant (7)
A Japanese entertainer - she gets involved with a GI (6)
What actuates Zebedee to get a car? The starter? (6,5)
Paris can do deals to develop a French region (4-3-2-6)
Battle I almost won with James the First? (3,4)
Careless freedom in desert (7)
Worker from the outskirts of Prague interrupting speaker (8)