Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (March 23rd 2006) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 32 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

In essence, almost keen to hold Blair back (7)
Crumpled dollar bill had influence (7)
Child minder to hurry back to Kent (5)
Bright idea gets supporter in flap (9)
Samantha turns religious and is butchered (9)
Direction taken by Karenina, one of the family (5)
First person to be covered in scent, leading to a row (5)
Fantastic or amusing fool (9)
Supervision is a mistake (9)
Wealthy person, terribly glum when pocketing nothing (5)
Fraud: it's contrary and no good (5)
Dashing crooner keeps entertaining (9)
Get rid of cat in time to go west (9)
Cloth for type of shirt worn by Shakespeare (5)
Became known by associating me with greed improperly (7)
Like a lemon chicken, yummy at either end (7)
Hawkins managed to conceal a relation (7)
Sherry OK? I prepared this pudding (9)
The last one: love game, perhaps (5)
Climbing aboard to take me up to part of London (9)
Dull beginner divides the orchestra (5)
Problem for sister cutting up fish with alcohol (9)
Grasp left ear and tip of nose (5)
Broadcasters make brief adjustment with eyes turned (7)
Indulgent, despite a piece of cake vanishing (4-5)
Improbable? No fear! (3,6)
Unsettled, if coming with a grandee? (9)
Disgusting old boy seen on "Panorama" (7)
Support a colleague by rights (7)
A picture of, say, a friend in Calais is held up (5)
Keep a piece of timber (5)
Sleep here and half hope to telephone (5)