Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (July 18th 2013) 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.

Budgerigars, perhaps, rising like owls in flight? (8)
Part below zero literally empty, however (5-5)
Time alternative cases in process (9)
Small number of hens, you might say, for an ice cream serving? (8)
Joiner taking gold fled from the country (8)
Drunk left in the end, cut short (6)
Beam first on roof then (6)
Beer container is capital (5)
Held up by hook, a monster shark (4)
More slight risk with nine labours (8)
Sense the superpower's gone then? (4)
Computer puzzling no work for a monkey (7)
Channels being employed on board (7)
Scrubber taking a plonker from behind (5)
See 27
Conventional way, say, to find 2 of 4, perhaps? (6,4)
See 26
Blooming quality not as good among delicate seamless fringes (11)
See 27
One's blown old plane in half (4)
Choppy sea more confused, we hear, in part of England (4,6)
Establishment of Rome not entirely anti-revolutionary (9)
Jay catching birds beginning to warble seasonal song (3,2,4)
President taking circuitous line in consultation with me, I'm stretched out, tired and exhausted (7,11,9)
Third wife has to be extra watchful, they say (7)
Attack underground workers heading for tunnel (6)
Taking credit and responsibility, he brought up his children (6)
Four leaflets for it, equal after distribution (10)
Mathematician starts to expand upon Lagrange's extraordinary results (5)
Dozy trio of neighbouring characters screened by Hampshire channel (9)