Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (March 19th 2002) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Pick up lock key then lay down (6)
Covert introduction of Scripture to cult (6)
Lisa is keener, they say (4)
Division intended to report after leave (10)
Flicks off hospital machine switch (6)
2 type of beetle (8)
The pledge of confinement (9)
The last charge to Jerusalem (4)
Middlebrows regret backing common currency (4)
They'll make short work of things (9)
Absurd ambition, not one to end in a province (8)
Washington Irving's hollow shelter bagged by mole (6)
Cut out the occasionally Prussian style of skirt (4,6)
See 27 (4)
He has the power to cut blades - grass? (6)
(and 25, 2) The once fruitless condition re-called by Nelson? (6)
Roman Io stirred Cupid (7)
See 27 (5)
All lit up in rave to raise charity (7)
Strangely overlooked old solvers smuggling currency (6)
Commentary about the mother of two monarchs (9)
Au fait with top Newcastle United form? (5,2)
Tony Short added fungi raised on the farm as part of the bill (7,6)
Depressed spirit sinks off without energy into the gloom (9)
Given new powers, penal centre became sanguinary (7)
Endlessly abuse a right to be withdrawn (7)
Flush out Peter, the French prisoner (7)
For example, lead and drive high up, finding top gear (6)
Dainty morsel of mackerel, finely sliced (5)