Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 28th 2009) 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.

Duty of extra esteem getting volunteers cross (5-5,3)
Warm, cold or laid back? (7)
City, a New Testament one with old church (7)
Strangely divine, holy but not at first outwardly (5)
One may catch, say, Labour's blunder on reflection (5,4)
Battle leads English to freedom (5)
Republic, as in Roman style (3,6)
Green side can be stimulated (9)
Boy leaves sleeper for sweeper (5)
Being attractive keeps gunner's daughter matey (9)
Second space must … (5)
Rude word to finish one's respectful address (7)
Inform that paper is folded (7)
John Bull's paunch? (6,7)
A mere door, perhaps, to higher things? (9)
Singular name for Diana's sister (5)
Free puff for a party? (2-3)
Gordon almost dead, confused and coerced (9)
Girl loses head, another gets up to start Bacchus's wild song of praise (9)
Love morning with the Guardian's appearance (5)
Without one, little children repeatedly tear loose, out of control (13)
Where Hamlet slept with no alternative in Somerset? (7,6)
Inveterate, if erroneous, need to store corn (9)
Organise messy site clearance (9)
One solution takes turn for article avoiding the rest (9)
Plain clothes Muslim lawyer (5)
Long time and a quarter (5)
Compiling lapse — a bit of a bloomer (5)