December 9th 2008 The Guardian Cryptic crossword answers

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

Holds view that prevails (3,2)
At first, ducks are playing in the well (9)
I'm unknown, as they say: I have a high life (4)
Big beasts dropping a subject with rounds in it (8)
Generalissimo with true twist of belt (8)
Balcony spattered with mud, but they are far from wet ... (6,4)
... far from that kind of Tory, holding Ulster in an exhausted state (9)
Jolly good Tory eating meat? Good! (8)
Commit patricide by one with binding attachment (8)
Ross's leader following his follower, mostly one that suffers (6)
Large fish for this bird? (6)
Dialectician providing hair fixer for men? (5)
Parrot on top of one of the Roses? (4)
Department store wrecked by half 11 (7)
The land across the sea shows when to see you (5)
Forties cry that's on the up when winning first gold (6)
Indian writer's granny's eaten a fish (7)
Had no choice with river entering cave (6)
"We turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the 12, the 10, the 14, the g24 of ___ 11, the 16 and the 19 of ___ 28" (Macaulay, making the most of his length) (7)
The unconscious revelation of how fast the Queen goes after a pub (5,5)
Shocking omission of "the plural of mou__e" (7)
Fancy end with hard fact, not out of factory (11)
Bird on pole, no friend to our friend (5)
Periodically new American island (9)
Be depressed about arrangement of 12's work (4)
In a trap? Repeat all but the last letters (10)
A very long way to the galaxy's boundaries, tossed around among storytellers (5,5)
Cocktail of drugs for liner (4)
Monkey moving about on the up (9)
23 with a stone? (11)

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