Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 20th 2021) clues of The Guardian Cryptic 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.

Believe this may be on the cards (6)
Size of old temporary housing (6)
Start getting leg fixed (5)
Extraordinarily powerful article Poirot was on to (9)
Old soldier heading off demonstrator (6)
Mischievous spirit to depart, limpin' around (9)
Doctor taking holiday: that's a relief (5)
Hint to politicians in the know (5,2)
Policemen in some unit reorganised (8)
Job done, cabbie, but now I'm confused (5,3,2,5)
Automobile seen in Kansas City (5)
Level in cup match, right? (4)
Sort of pipe Spooner couldn't confuse! (7)
Sphere in which your fortune may lie (7,4)
Celtic fan, perhaps, sawing a leg off (10)
Unrealistic expectation of high tea? (3,2,3,3)
Come ashore, admitting being a laird? (10)
Beach pebble or rock (9)
School is excellent, but beginning to go bad (4)
Copy restriction? Not at first (9)
Many thousands of moves taking ages (1,5,2,7)
Largely woolly letter from abroad? (6)
Nanny's nanny? (8)
What children learn early: they can get through a door without opening it (7)
Husband enters to wreck party (6)
Put money in, having lost one's shirt? (6)
An increasing problem ties boy in knots (7)
External route diverted (5)