Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 25th 2005) 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.

Arrive earlier, like blood entering head (7)
Salt provides great modern art (7)
Top 29 cross (4)
Floor scheme crushed - not entirely flat surface (6,4)
Most inadequate, large ball bearing? (6)
A thousand never 26 - they trying to be clever? (4-4)
Sting, for example, animal, then girl, then me (5,4)
Painful to grasp a hundred and twenty (5)
Promiscuous monk, you say? Don't trust him (5,6)
Outlaw having to cheat in anything but poetry (9)
Tubes carrying a river through French city to Italy (8)
Tone down fit of rage (6)
Someone beautiful in face, in parts (10)
Imminent knocking back of hard liquor (4)
Blood bath, though horse protected? (7)
Gorilla seen with a crook? (7)
Bond hit the booze (7)
All fingers and thumbs in Paris - that is, the South (5)
Reportedly giant contract (7)
See 17
Entertainer that's appreciated pranced around (3,6)
Advertising vehicle? (7)
Never licked 23? (5,8)
How long might she be expecting, say, having turned up at Victoria? (9)
Aaron Copland's first composition involves one instrument (7)
One paying bill for immigrant? (7)
Hangover resulting from heavy drinking (4,3)
Playing the jester is Jack's first and only card (6)
Perhaps beat up and down, up and down (5)