Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 19th 2006) 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.

Orthodox priest taking pot shot at compiler (11)
Impose restrictions on tea in leaderless African country (7)
Plug for Sunday hat (7)
Bad-mouth fresh crepe garnished with fruit (9)
Shed puts paid to the island (5)
No more drinks on the magazine! (4)
Admirer of Iron Maiden's "Number One Sausage"? (4-6)
Recording of heartbeat broadcast during reception in New York? (6,4)
Ruler beginning to sink in pitch (4)
Zeus's lover had returned in state (5)
One big, bland, blundering improvisation (2-7)
Language of novelist in church (7)
Must dialectal Scandinavian be so dull? (7)
Produce fertiliser concealing universal truth (11)
Means of suppressing dreadful shame and panic - seem cold (6,9)
Drinks to the closure of "Spare Rib" (5)
Wrap up the players on time (7)
Stand that is designed as an alternative (7)
24 natives pick up Soldier John, a ruffian (8)
Extract hypothetical element (deuterium) and accidentally gas the police with it (15)
Germany's head correct about Germany? Only joking! (6)
Earnest request for sportsperson to change sides (6)
On which to play song about fruit? On the contrary (8)
Appear nervous, supplying toe of newt to necromancer (6)
Twist of fate secures booze for East End pickpocket (3,4)
Fighting talk from European vermin (tailless) (7)
Weather-beaten but carpeted? (6)
Looking up excerpt about Nabokov's language (5)