Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 22nd 2006) clues of The Guardian Quiptic 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.

Paid for a bride's exotic, unusually shaped flower from Africa (4,2,8)
Prepare to stir duck and rice dish (7)
They visit cellars, getting tipsy (7)
Over in Bergamo, I discussed language (5)
I'm international mime artist, extremely versatile but unoriginal (9)
Get near to volatile harmful substance (9)
Jerks and dolts demanding change of leader (5)
Hand over joint, but not Ecstasy (5)
Try to run; it will make you fitter (9)
Former cricket captain with terribly trying ego (4,5)
Girl gets work in old county (5)
Allied leaders start to ascertain, by degrees, where Montgomery is (7)
Ariel is, perhaps, from Tel Aviv? (7)
Popular novelist's written about origins of his association with great physicist (7,7)
Lawyer seen in pub with a writ's later made to look silly (9-2-3)
More reliable? Not initially, being comparatively out of practice (7)
Meet actor struggling to deliver line (9)
Rising quietly and wandering aimlessly (7)
Criminal in court causing uproar (7)
Fidel talks about US detention camp (5)
Place is possibly unique (7)
Ms Jowell returns, exposing unsavoury business practice (14)
Minister is a knave to vacuously support improper war (4,5)
Attached to insect? That's sweet! (7)
The Spanish girl finally got free lift (7)
Doctor, single, originally hailing from part of Britain (7)
New Israeli composer (7)
Get hold of good tool (5)