Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 17th 2024) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Queen’s favourite element: congress (5)
Moon-like ring associated with tribal revelry (7)
Toulouse-Lautrec took content that’s oddly-numbered (5)
Thumb prodded into awkward person in government department (7)
Airline holds suitable IC cert. for a type of energy (10)
Republic locks king out – ‘It’s over!’ (5)
Informal footwear on one backward holiday island (5)
Bigwig hides underwear (surprise!) right in instrument (9)
Give up rugby player as a sweetener (8)
Debauched feature of corgi a sticking-point (9)
Irregular Roman senate and people with nothing for queen on acid – deplorable (8)
It loves most precipitous hill starts (5)
Southern food plants (5)
Watershed follows start of broadcast link (6)
Military officer guarding extra-large stray (4)
Pacific islands object about having to accept English ways (9)
Live broadcast attempt is heartless frivolity (6)
One’s favourite island has vitality that’s contagious (8)
Revolutionary phase – article gets time wrong (3,6)
Peg trembled without a top (4)
Old-style, you extracted teeth (not top) (4)
Unlikely Oscar for ‘Killers Working Together’ (5)
Special lifts to be installed in hospital recess (4)
Continent holding back world money – delightful stuff! (8)
Attackers of Republican supporters (7)
Society cuts bank job (4)
A pull-out includes recipe, more than one in fact (6)
Nothing gets over pass ahead of northern city (7)
Meetings to resist cutting measures (10)
Secret clubs don’t prevail (5)
Foreign spy ring confiscates church film (6)
Statecraft (3)
‘Aspects of vice’ lectures (4)