Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 27th 2013) 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.

Press employee to have a half of real ale (8)
Rhetorical device encountered once before in speech (8)
Striking achievement of American flier returning to base (5)
Gallery in New York, for example, unopened (4)
Religious leader as father figure, ultimately (4)
Constitution's supporter supplied ruler with an agenda, for example (10)
Lots of teachers in part of England cut (6)
Seeker of proof getting nothing in maths wrong (6)
Links good, when embraced by some forming unions (7)
Part of chore very onerous for people, without exception (8)
Strange rite in earlier time a number regarded as ominous (8)
Wordsmiths assembled work, in theory, so oddly (7)
Part of problem — ploy men typically use (10)
One with shattered nerves? Just the opposite (7)
Parties regularly selected, happening in place with bars (6)
Endures being torpedoed by a submarine (8)
Steep mountain presenting dire threat in early part of day (10)
Proposal to bring it back in satellite (6)
Lack of care skin problem on head required (8)
State capital (10)
Hoaxed over name, given stuff to swallow uncritically (8)
Quest, the conclusions of which you can reject (4)
False alarm — it is related to war (7)
British vessels in Scottish waters (5)
Hearing organ bishop in US city installed in neighbourhood (6)
Note added to novel Thoreau wrote (8)
Record time (6)
Outlaw or gangster? It depends on the initial case (4)