Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 31st 2002) 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.

Before there's an upheaval, get a better job (10)
Precious little 12 for others (4)
Change from cad with clot and from 19 1s' 12 (4,7,4)
Young creature for hire, always to be taken in (7)
Nobel prizewinner could be lost in a tabloid (7)
Waged war determinedly to show 1 (6)
Literary hero's drunk (6)
All turn - that's demanded out of spite (3,6)
I won't allow you to flag (6)
Pasta with Benedictine in the realm of folly (9)
Two generations could be free (5)
1s putting a smile on a fish (8)
POW camp with prisoners' regulator? (5)
Heal portico that's collapsed: is this correctly pronounced? (11)
Drink in Germany - please get the right answer (6,5)
Beasts and bird in battle (9)
Heath makes himself known about scheme that wasn't there at first (9)
Two churches on song: a worm will follow (8)
A girl to confess being inside it (6)
Grey cover containing 6 (5)
Matched and dispatched? (5)
Bigwig with big backing from primate (6)
The fisherman's whim (6)
The country round follows alternative 1s (7)
Winter sports association for 51 bucks, maybe (3,4)
Ignis fatuus for back-packers? (10,5)
Address to Manx cat by 8 across 1s, maybe (4)
A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable (10)