Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 8th 2008) 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.

Boy with no glossy cut (7)
Meat - reports of lamb - around in islands (7)
Significant openings give strong impulse to lines of operation (7,7)
To comment on the repulsive - that's a hard thing (7)
Near desert place in the south of Italy? In the south of France (7)
Last nasty messy problem for adviser with computer (7,7)
Eliminate all friction from fuel source (3,4)
Sideways move to be left in? (5)
Freeze looks after the money (4,5)
Exclusion of alternatives for those who have done it here (7)
French churchman born (as they say) in criminal surroundings ... (7)
... for whom the one church provided food (5)
It takes a complex character to vote for the Sun (7)
Obstructive about carriage: is setter in it, pregnant? (2,3,6,3)
Woodman to "welcome little fishes in"? (9)
Base bearing little relation to concrete? (7)
A succession was first raised with Norfolk in Sussex (7)
Romance as we've never seen it before (5)
Little present of moderate cost - no good returning if assassin's about (8,6)
A right to make holes inside a lot of trees (9)
Be in bed in dress contemporary with Mozart (7)
Cloth has grandmother on her toes (7)
Result of tables turned at Hull with gas explosion (4,5)
Fair chance this number's lost its line (5)
Travel free some of the way - or not, say (4,5)
Persevere with tool for fusing metal: remove ring and adjust slightly (7,2)
Refuse to tease (5)
Peer, member of the quality (5)