Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 27th 2008) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 32 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Man of great stature eclipsing one as artist (6)
Petty rule it could be unpolitic to break (9)
Secure contract (3)
Repeat too much love poetry around university (7)
Impression about second team's left-winger, maybe (9)
They cover pupils, including learner I had in English? OK (7)
Top up rum he mixed with Pilsner (9)
Dog, black one, grabbing pasta (6)
Character of Timon and others reduced (3)
Tailor putting skill in to select cut (6)
See some tigers at zoo, not like the real thing (6)
Odd US candidate who kept spirits up? (3-6)
Safety device essential in pipes? (3,3)
Port not all passed orthodoxly to the left (6)
Power to harm and be upset, I heard (4,3)
Tale's beginning, in fact, in touching way (9)
Property mainly belonging to me is kept inside bar (9)
Course from France in French plane, say (6)
Rejected and dropped, holding back information (9)
Clever as student, mostly (6)
Material son added to rum and water (9)
Scrub cape unusually clean (6)
ATM George misused as source of money (9)
A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus? (9)
What gets grey started? (3)
Non-alcoholic drink is what driver needs, we hear (3)
About a thousand units involved in main disturbance (7)
As material, get serge or get terry in part (9)
Authors announced titles (6)
Tiny swimmers, with so little weight, turning up at openings (9)
Like nurses at work, keep going! (6)
With this kind of coat, unaffected by flak (6)