Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 5th 2014) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

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<span>Masterpiece of gun surgery by American </span> (6,4)
Steady second indep­endent Liberal returned in contested seat (9)
Key to apartment No 5? (1,4)
Hunk goes over to relax, say, in swingers' bar (7)
Such rulers stop seditious faction after revolution (7)
Arrive at party and face problem (6)
Girl entertains a name over in folly (6)
Phil's in pieces going over lines (7)
He beats stranger after dreadful start (7)
One of the originators, possibly, but no hero (10)
Deprived of minibus not in the same place (5)
Writer's filling issue for singer and playwright (5)
Fervent disorder with Paisley, perhaps, in charge (9)
Strand grass for sand hopper (6,3)
Journal covering leaderless lawsuit's volume of words (10)
One needing exercise wants female (4)
Masters Genesis number (4)
Bloke's endlessly reckless language (8)
IRA's grit seen to emerge from this event? (6,6)
Soldiers rush to load batteries again (8)
He makes cheeky revelation in Times about English novel (3,9)
Hesitant but alert, relegating leading pair (9)
Mark to remain a long time confined in flats, typically (5,3)
They check cards and figures on green flags (3,7)
Rum compound made out of rare fluid (8)
Spacecraft left in a swimming pool (6)
The way things are, wine's flooding Italy (2,2,2)
Lots light up, beginning to drink (2,3)
Party's feeling agit­ated about answer (4,4)