Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 29th 2022) 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.

Athlete once trying to smuggle chocolate bars? (8,6)
Black horses, first of three having escaped (5)
Second course that was designed for the better (4-4)
Recollection of horse eating pork — is that witty? (7)
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’ouse introducing marginally better card game (5)
Some fumes enter all old parts of the gut (9)
In the morning, harassment of editors gradually paid off (9)
Spiel, dark stuff (5)
Typically English establishment, Australian native inside? (3,4)
Paul in debt, probably asking for a stroke? (7)
Where everyone was rightly under suspicion, hellish working for a Chinese newspaper? (6,2,3,6,7)
Landowner seen, hide daughter (5)
Letter opener that is removed from armoire, admired as quirky (4,3,2,5)
Trump in love underneath post-graduate (6,2,4)
Scholar delivering sermon, endless gossip (5)
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Best knitted top, one buttoned up (7)
Fraudulent schemes in a game (7)
Don overturned tennis umpire's call (3,2)
Dropping old stick, heel on loafer's broken it (9)
Massive feat of engineering seen by a bird soaring over Barking from the south (5,4,3)
See red garment worn by orphan, one abandoned (4,1,4)
Scary girl or stinker almost flipped, of course (2,7)
Owner of sword I plant while not going down (7)
Microphone initially grasped by idle singer? (7)
Rank skirt, but not top (5)
With climbers furious, short of peak, expedition leader dug in (5)