Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 11th 2005) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Sting providing strain on piano (5)
A reactionary former Director-General wearing short skirt, bearing essential part (9)
Drunk accepts beer (not a scene worth looking at) (9)
Taking issue with shares figures? (5)
Continuation, we learn, to be disrupted (7)
Bomb vessel amid warning, of course (7)
To appear servile in civil war, Cavaliers effecting volte-face (5)
Drink a drop shortly (3)
Volunteer converting to republicanism? (5)
Old man with illusion, blessed snake charmer? (7)
See 31
Audibly chuck, given pain (5)
Conquistador's victim, black among white, helpless (9)
It's essential to stop saying "Holiday? Get away!" (9)
To get Linford Christie's kit off, cheat! (4,1,4,3)
Work without discharge? (4)
Capitals of Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Iceland, Austria and Ireland (8)
Sketch monarch in pose (4)
9 15 = 24 (8)
Inward reference given in case upset during poem (6)
Mean to secure prominence first (10)
So to speak, are you familiar with Alaska's capital? (6)
Glass vessel, river vessel close to shore (4,4)
Horse on hind legs to go over again (5)
Wife given wake-up call rising around noon - surely not! (4,1,5)
One lining Jane's nest (5)
Moved camp (8)
Rio's game, yet to fix line in Charlie (8)
Hat ultimately on 28? Unlikely! (6)
At end of dusk it's dark, man! (6)
See 8
Linesman sees another holding his head (4)
8 for which A, B, C or D too much? On the contrary (4)