Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 29th 2008) clues of The Guardian Quiptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Old Chief met returning spies (7)
Artist's return's in hand, says Parliamentary report (7)
Ladder to a higher level in preliminary stage (3-2)
At home to wake the dead (9)
Make worse when former spouse beat race problem (10)
An all-points bulletin (4)
Data concerning the way the Red Arrows perform (11)
Quartet's sound given careful consideration (11)
Mountain illustrated in booklet NASA published (4)
Detective's conclusion on leak (10)
Policeman to examine gold (9)
Leading a senior educator (5)
Spicy sort of colour (7)
Balsam treated with unknown ingredient is bad (7)
Settled the rush on silver (6)
Two able to dance (6)
Admire a recipe Pat cooked (10)
The weather said to be on the up (5)
Hug rather awkwardly on mat by the fire (9)
Fix hanger (4)
Concerning education, but it's irrelevant (8)
Ordered red signs for sauce (8)
Carrying a warning, "Beware, deflected ray" (10)
Roy flirts vaguely with the flower trade (9)
Giving away oriental band (8)
Delightful boy seen from two generations back (8)
Mothers' Union returned to ponder over old collection (6)
Hostility Albania experienced regarding a very old system (6)
About arctic changes, but there's no time! (5)
Liberated from unsafe territory - it''s only fair (4)