Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (July 18th 2014) clues of The Guardian Quick crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 24 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Defer (8)
Caricatured (4)
Thicket (5)
Cease to participate (4,3)
Braggadocio (12)
Improved (6)
Hard to find (6)
Dickens novel (6,3,3)
Charged with an offence (7)
Bingo (5)
Metal obtained from haematite (4)
French policeman (8)
Step (4)
Backing (7)
Official statement issued to the media (5,7)
Fall asleep (3,3)
Writings not in verse (5)
Abhorred (8)
Pampered (12)
Federal capital of the United Arab Emirates (3,5)
Farmyard fowl (7)
Lanced (anag) (6)
Exaggeratedly masculine (5)
Historically, the chief magistrate of Venice or Genoa (4)