Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 18th 2000) clues of The Guardian Quiptic 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.

Song composed by Dickens? (1,9,5)
Growth of obscurity before the French get to the point (9)
Sore, upset, so got out of bed (4)
Planned to take away, berate and leave the shop (4)
Say you will record the warmth of Christmas (4,3)
Is saga a revolutionary instrument of war? (7)
Drink in and refine gustatory senses (5)
Leader by a nose! (4)
Ermine lost tail in covered walkway (4)
Remains, possibly Angela's (5)
I do listen to someone who worships (7)
Drive right in after getting sheep back (3,4)
See 19 down (4)
A ringer originally -- best ever and least likely (4)
Showing no emotion, confront after game (5,4)
Lily, the leading light (4,2,9)
Smart miser chary, perhaps, of giving a seasonal greeting (1,5,9)
Poetry heard when fog is frozen (4)
One is in this at the meeting (7)
Stable companion of the ox and the ass, perhaps (4)
State of being ready for firm head (7)
Alfred first married in a state of wonder (4)
At a magical time I let suspect make legal demand (10,5)
Place of safety -- for a Conservative? (9)
Reel in a number, then some more (9)
Guiding principle of German spirit (5)
Implement heard to be an omen (5)
The burden of St Nicholas (1,4,2,4)
Black musical group's day of rest (7)
Prompt encouragement (4)
Spruce, for example, decked out for Christmas (4)
Venerable fellow's in bed early (4)