Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 23rd 2014) 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.

Back at university, London one, after writer's urge to act (7)
Paint not thinly applied is gone in one second (7)
Lining of coat's easily lost (2,3)
Hertz clients taken out for some food (9)
Showing admiration, Enigmatist is doing Mr Rusbridger's job! (9)
Liking condition No 1 to become No 3 (5)
Feather-brain needs help to catch leggy bird (7)
Unnecessarily wily fleeing rocks (7)
Honey and lemon's first sipped by loathsome author (8)
Not quite full backing for Queen and Country (5)
Declaration from elocutionist who won crown, movingly taking in bow (3,3,5,3)
One's opening is always repeated twice (1,3,1,3,1,3)
Nude dancing? Take a little Peter Pan out! (3,2)
Leader having dropped right down, scrutinises excuses rather! (3,6)
Guardian's put through edited parody, being sorry? (1,3,4,6)
A range of Italian desserts (5)
Diabolical ruses employed to get around North Dakota, "The Altogether State" (7)
Mother, perhaps, is unable to do/does dressing (8)
Quite esurient, rather like a 1962 Oscar winner? (7)
Does such an attraction have no point? One, actually, for each side (8,4)
Very posh, a woman's in Kent, say (9)
Rip centre of kitchen out today and fly! (2,3,4)
Pessimistic canon's portion of ground cabbage salad (4,3)
Arty male performer excited 70% of Sun readers (7)
Self-willed velocity witnessed in dash (5)
Correct reasoning traps soldier in mountain pass heading north (5)
Such as XL and I zero in on nameless poetry (9)
A low approach shot towards the hole, presumably to come second (3-2)