Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 24th 2008) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Maybe solar power applied to car (6)
Not entirely glorious state with short, fat person left out in relative abandonment (6,7)
Soaks approaching Arab with a serious drink problem (10)
Flatter bottom, straight back! (6,2)
See 5
Scrabble sloth (ai) exists to create social problem (9)
See 1
Intimate about love, one appearing wet (7)
City light filled with gas, exploding (7)
Find fault with constituency allocation? (7)
See 3
Wail in grief as South African executed, dead (7)
Messiah initially placed in manger getting nothing for his birthday! (6)
Stray snatched up by young animal, certainly (3,4)
Apple warmer, though not hot (5)
Doubly caddish musician? (5,7)
Is padre in disguise? Give up (7)
Detail of Germanic etymology (6)
Facts on nation, as they say, cobblers, say (9)
US city judge so upstanding, insane? (3,4)
Essay penned by school square, a killer (10)
Put in little round object, old coin (6)
French comic written in twelve symbols (8)
Beginning to advance, a sharply shifting stream of charged particles (5,4)
Flying boats (5)
How W-H-E-A-T is? (5)
Sporting ploy of taking left back past first of strikers, if organised (7,4)
Happy as the carpet beetle? (4,2,1,3,2,1,3)
A little wind from the rear, producing tune (4)