The Guardian Cryptic December 23rd 2008 Crossword Clues • Crossword Tracker

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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 28 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Flag and little flower given to Queen (8)
"Banish lessons about many faiths" - Pope's man? (8)
Bit of joint in which musical group's turned up (5)
Like a monk given vocation and told to keep quiet at start of meeting? (6,2,5)
Strain on part of the body leading to retreat (4,4)
Item left in car (6)
Extraordinarily wonderful guy who could make hope surer (9)
Person underground, given warning, runs (5)
Survey oxygen after a space mission (6)
Excellent hint to big boozers half ignored (6)
Wings, see, with skill ascending (6)
Sincere chap spouting (primarily real Luddite within?) (6,7)
Store "black stuff", as you might say, in this bunker (9)
Rotten fellow ("Bad Bill") in car (8)
Physicist as radical writer releasing anger (5)
Language of offensive old books rejected (6)
Something with a blade kills woman (3,5)
Convey love, offering coffee (8)
Taylor enjoys entertaining another actress (5)
Welsh craft won't allow leader to show authority (6)
Music institution once fraudulent (9)
Drink gives one dreadful toothache, pressure region being squeezed (3,9)
Ena is bare, cavorting? That's saucy (9)
Girl with whom there's nothing "switched on" (5)
The head may be wooden in school (5)
Extra cocaine is brought in - it being this? (9)
Wire in the mousetrap? (6-6)
Work created for a return - book penned by drudge? (9)

December 23rd 2008 The Guardian Cryptic crossword answers