Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (March 9th 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.

Boil off stewed fig, say (6)
Silvery sailor keeps quiet on leaving capital (3-5)
Column of Dutch sheep? (5)
Coarse 'orsemen full of bitterness in North America (9)
Spice Boy taken in by twister (9)
Debauchee drinking gallons of make-up (5)
Welsh setback in case of wasting (12)
Ming (or Maoist) measure in metamorphosis, maybe (12)
Computerisation reveals places of origin (5)
Eking out stored fodder at critical juncture (5-4)
Marine transport ordered for a lost holiday (9)
Old rascal forfeiting right to attendant (5)
Wine, duly fermented, may be hard to handle (8)
Love to receive Romeo's mail, perhaps (6)
Novelist holds figure up for extermination (8)
Drains jug carried by guru (8)
Get sick of turning leaves (5)
Mitigates impact of huge rats running amok aboard lighter (6,3,4)
Pregnant, not dead, in Lugosi's part of London (9)
Impenetrable composition leading to audience's discomfort (6)
"Keep your options open", says Frenchwoman (6)
Fail to drain udders before court d-drama (5,4,4)
Northern Europe mostly ill-disposed to seaweed (9)
5 closeted, as a rapper might say, with culinary challenge (8)
Maybe Franklin's backer switched poles (8)
Try to sell solver foreign language (6)
Drink to old women in rural setting (6)
Junior swimmer continuously bearing left (5)