Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 6th 2014) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Figurehead at unusually close quarters to the crew (6)
Relation who takes the pledge (5)
Smoked by the great man in bed (7)
Journalist taken aback by news of the country (6)
Notice gap coming in the church calendar (6)
In truth, she goes to the city (4)
The acquisition of a favourable reputation (10)
Eternal theme of the beautician? (7)
Not the first time (6)
State aid distributed by the Home Office (5)
One who talks one round to composing some music (8)
Leave a musical group — no making a comeback (7)
Space explorer's study? (9)
Beg for a retrial? (6)
Dole out food, say? (4)
Flattery works with EastEnders, say (4,5)
Small child to go out of control (4)
Refuse to go through all the cases (7)
Yet it might be the product of an active imagination (4,5)
Housing allowance (13)
Blue-pencil our costs — being out of order (5,3)
Restore control, say (9)
First of plants under­developed, cut back (6)
Lax hands act sycoph­antically on board (7)
Turkish baths, which flout union regulat­ions? (10)
Photographed out of doors? (7)
Shut up firm having little work (4)
Hesitated to have father taken advantage of (6)
Armadillo, for example, has plate all round (6)