Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (July 1st 2009) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 26 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Guard's second appearance (6)
Grouse or duck seized by male or female bird of prey (8)
Highly amusing person coming in second best (6)
Leader of climbers always upset when fool falls in this? (8)
More nastily derogatory about rackets being raised (6)
Rousing stuff, timeless symphony (6)
Pressed on in awfully dire case (6)
Team adding numbers before and after this (6)
Red Cross hero that's automatically put in control? (6)
A lot of people caught up in party machine (6)
Woman and man in partnership for people of Western state (8)
Parts of solutions put across for areas with social problems? (5,6)
That woman with old idol, a priestess (4)
Traveller with story about popular female shopkeeper (8)
Realms most disrupted in turbulent situations (10)
Seal unit off to avoid shocking accidents (8)
Priest holding one mass, something done in critical time (11)
Make use of library as author (6)
Assumes position tardily in America (10)
On edge that's hard? (6)
Dispatch starts from southern England, finishes in Northern Ireland (4)
Numbers split up in US city (6)
Regularly perform exploit in force (8)
Communist council among, also, Vietnamese (6)
Put together very badly as houses (6)
Like most drivers, stiff and awkward (6)