Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 18th 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.

Rake's predicament (6)
'eadlight caught liegeman going back inside - or not? (8)
Nurse is to inject into back shortly (6)
Remain to be put back into line when free, not to be put away (8)
Thief with priceless rocks in work of 5 (3,7,4)
Drink thus passed round vehicle for ship's officer (10)
Illness difficult to diagnose with head chopped off (4)
New kind of brake catches (4)
Wreck passed over in sound in drizzle (6,4)
Vacillate, as do sirocco and mistral (4,3,3,4)
Leaders in Brighton and Hove Albion alarm shambolic Palace (8)
Might one have money invested in Gulf state? (6)
Figure keeping quiet, right behind shark (8)
One sustaining what's squeezed from layer? (3,3)
Band of thieves, a shower (4)
Fruit increased with it (7)
Film director's no good absent at close of picture and its opening (8)
Writer is to provide, as 17 is to 9 (3,8)
Salad without western salad ingredient (6)
Is brought up on showy stuff, as 17 is to 9 (7)
Apply too much strain when English king seen in public (9)
Blair maintains Conservative leader in a hopeless situation where cuts promised (11)
Desert Storm to grind down through pressure (9)
Awful finding bit of horse in grass (8)
One in order runs into trouble (7)
One's priest not entirely in charge, though religious (7)
Joint in place up river (6)
Cut legs up (4)