Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 4th 2005) 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.

Erring ringer with half tale extending beyond biography (6,4,4)
Dog did more than bark at little old coin (7)
Tortoise makes exam turn to party (7)
Venetian painter's 21 (5)
Series of games not brilliant, being often showered on (6,3)
Ring time? It's a celebration for Stephen (6,3)
The proverbial shooter (5)
Russian general with the French resting place (5)
Novelist from America entering the abused NHS when sick (5,4)
Sound horn at hospital entry, thus setter is to be relished? (9)
21 for refuse collector on leave (5)
Weary feeling causes primate to inhale oxygen (7)
Where Caesar beat Pompey, thus grabbing a bit more writing (7)
Add one to my church number before the operation (14)
Wodehouse's 22's autobiography, a bit at a time (6,2,6)
Punishment about a cab I left on which I should be paid (4,3)
Get tanned via the web - modern way (9)
Trade union going leftward as instructed (7)
Encouragement to strike raised in case of a trifle (7)
Yarn from Innisfree? (5)
Perplex and deceive, accepting endless cry of surprise (7)
"No music", you tell the mess with haughty scorn (14)
Day consumption - some red roses in the Alps (4,5)
Made 1 across and dynamited? (5,2)
Firm insured for being cleaned too harshly? (7)
I doubt if an austere person would go topless and embrace the piano (7)
I produced absurdities, as 1 1 = 3/7ths of 17 down (7)
Audience of aristocrats in stockings (5)