Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 22nd 2005) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Old musical players making comeback in effect (9)
South African martyr hugs liberal sergeant on TV (5)
Muslim ascetic having a weekend in tree (5)
Pole thus imprisoned by proper sort of tyrant (9)
Oxford and Cambridge differ about rest (7)
22 down one 19 down, we hear? But that's out of bounds (7)
Rover never barking (5)
Run past in discussion (3)
Thespian finally acquainted with material (5)
Hundred resident in shoe - shame! (7)
Interjection from Scotsman tucking into cheese roll (7)
Drive softly into tree in front of sovereign (9)
Target in 1 club, spirits kept up to achieve 22 down (5,10)
22 down by river and lake (5)
Existing quality in a vessel at sea (9)
Game to sell up (4)
See 26
Just one introduced to smallholding, certainly not English (4-6)
Sinful trade, penny-pinching if 19 down (6)
Wave painted with minimum of ebb, suggesting this? (4,4)
Fit relation, if 19 down (4)
Whip good amid pleasure as photographer's aid (5,3)
Appear menacing in reception room, if 19 down (4)
Goddess taking new arrivals, if 19 down (5)
Thrashing tail of salmon tangled in angler's equipment (7,3)
Weapon, as one might say, if 19 down (5)
Vegetarian's order is terribly late in canteen (8)
Tungsten absorbed by cut in stomach making sick ... (5,3)
... as a parrot, perhaps (6)
Quick constable's first to join force (6)
See 26
Tear skin (4)
22 down's place reliable, though no house (4)