Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 5th 2009) 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.

A rude Wren dancing in bloomers? (9)
Vanquished, beheaded and devoured (5)
Harshly criticise Long for sense of style (7)
Imagine old Briton by river (7)
Put down backward, abbreviated, variety of language (4)
Double for inactive campanologist (4,6)
Madame who modelled us a stud? (7)
Scruffy creature from meadow born into drudgery (7)
Musician fingers this and, troubled, turns legit (10)
Large soprano in large tank? (4)
Frightened to admit king is disfigured (7)
Author with a book out in Nevada (7)
Urge student to follow setter's fitness programme (5)
Mutant weed, in time, produces flower (9)
Spirit with peculiar pill tests family in fairytale (15)
Little lad with nothing claimed by disease of glands (8)
Cost of puppy's first food (5)
Clergyman always turns up right before death! (8)
Stand after drug-fuelled experience leads to overdose? (6)
Recounted heroic exploit about special key (9)
Threaded saint on crossbar (6)
Veil irony and target's confused by how question is asked (15)
Animal queen put into cabbage dish (9)
Pays for those engaged to receive knight (8)
Want liberal to enter appeal for strike-breaker (8)
Copper trailing vehicle uncovers immoral women (6)
Vegetable artist's good-looker (6)
Wait for a proposal by partner (5)