Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 17th 2000) 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.

Purchase paper, say, for ancient craft (6)
Racing authorities set off to hospital (8)
See 20 (5)
I am the cat among dairy produce, going to overlap? (9)
Love girl madly, taking space traveller to the opera (9)
Student in the army made music (5)
Asylum seeker possibly omitting sari (12)
Who else that's prepared to take centre stage? (5,3,4)
Not the building site for Labour's Pauline and Frank (5)
It's a volte-face to consider a boxing match entertainment (5-4)
Figure that sounds like a ruin and a mess (9)
It's possible I shall leave, taking a year off, before the end of the grub (5)
Belt for senior officer? Possibly true (8)
He should be used to a bark (3,3)
See 10 down (8)
Give back the job of pollarding the fruit tree? (2-6)
Gong and what it signifies - eating a bite of dinner (5)
? (Hamlet) (2,2,2,3,2,2)
See 10 down (9)
Sapper's friend? Are you sure? (6)
Don't talk about temperature - take cover (6)
† (Macbeth) (2,4,1,6,5,1,3,6,2)
Company employed at 10 by non-English poet (9)
M's address to George (8)
Gloria, famous last words of? (4-4)
Where to cook some rice with mushroom? (6)
Belong to the Tory party? Its 9 did (6)
Moment of matrices (5)