Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 17th 2012) 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.

Sleazy guy's article in Paris Match on how to open a French letter (6)
He preserves 1/6th of an inch marble bust (8)
Hot drink and porridge for him! (6)
Force to apprehend associates returning directly (4-4)
Prepared for roistering around area where buffets are common (7,7)
Abandoned UK province rejected Luther's Reformed Church (2,3,5)
Foreign ruler with recipe for jelly (4)
Desire endless hot soak (4)
Disgruntled peasant gets stuck in to more agreeable beverage (5,5)
Conservative attitude is fixed aim in old artist (14)
High-flying female gulls heard by a Roman road (8)
Silver, say, is good value (6)
Online swine strikes with pointed remarks (8)
Going out with Frenchman from the right society (6)
Ex-PM losing head in retreat (4)
Millions invested in business stake — it may promote growth (7)
Old newspaperman, having admitted wrong, made a racket? (8)
Wrongdoing from the anti-feminist league? (11)
Regularly wearied by a politician's current measure (6)
Objectively, I gain ground introducing new import (7)
Recorder playing air gets in right runs (9)
Personality disorder raging in Tom Cruise (11)
Mail late as express isn't complete — that's awkward (3,2,4)
House is grand; nothing dirty's shown up (8)
Tongue was strained greeting a couple from Lithuania (7)
He has left the property (7)
German combatant in the Battle of the Bulge? (6)
Footballing whiz dropping back in muddle (4)