Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 12th 2000) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 32 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Copper backing for chimney's unserviceable - cloudy mass results (7)
Support the record reserves (7)
Worry as part of Tweed is turbulent (7)
One's the same as another (7)
Golf property round bush, somehow, in tip? (9)
The French in their way backing Swiss mathematician (5)
The city's to the fore, we hear (5)
Plant class in US universities (3,6)
English actor run possibly as a storyteller (9)
Spot produced by insect mostly (5)
Ship's funds going west (5)
Blow the directors! I have the controls (9)
Colourless flat (7)
Play with tin scraps in an unsuitable way (7)
Old tree: 50 years? (7)
Diner, perhaps, placed between king and duke's relatives (7)
Fish left around here in France: more for Will? (7)
Mixed muesli about right for disorder (7)
Some useful outhouses on the Irish Sea (5)
Vessel with reduced depth in petrol not to be reported? (3,6)
Beat time in HQ (5)
What's gone wriggling into fish basket? (6,3)
One in deep yen for stage (4,3)
One could be stuck up one (3,4)
Bird with grit, a music-maker (9)
1Standard credit when supporting quads (9)
Tries PE after injury suspension (7)
Wires could be passed transversely (7)
Firm place in church for thick black liquid (7)
Deed, say, upsetting, as sorrowful one could be (3-4)
The tot's pop? (5)
Note uprising ropes in crude strength (5)