Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 21st 1999) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 32 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Joke about girl that's a prude (7)
Who the author mentioned in disbelief? (7)
Provide for the 39th US President, not the 3rd (5)
Irritable note unknown (9)
Running a company like Robert Maxwell? (9)
"I want a thousand giraffes on my desk by tomorrow morning" (1,4,5)
See 12 (5)
Pound reduction to bring in (9)
Watch me object after square one (9)
After one Latin meal ... (5)
... or maybe another? (5)
Girl that's sweet etc comes back to embrace one that's not (9)
Landlord's rent offered during meal, though without starter (9)
One-horn creation (5)
American writer making men sore (7)
Odds on fish will provide glitter (7)
Small foreign instrument (7)
Beast swallows another 500 and a large port (9)
Beat most of the swindle (5)
Fruit makes a number react badly when eaten (9)
End of novel 5 across never completed, so died cross (5)
Mate given a ring, deliriously happy (4-1-4)
So be it! Point upwards to this treatment! (5)
This Hugh, we're told, can be looked up to (3-4)
Take back knotted rope onto ships around the East (9)
Book of words based on the old reptile's tail (9)
Finished my work, so hurtful (9)
Tiny boy grabs model, diamonds and the birds (7)
Bloomer getting confused on 7 (7)
Money, a pound given to the church (5)
A restricted chicken? (5)
Cricketer is about five, so form not yet developed (5)