Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 2nd 2009) 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.

Insect after vegetables for Hamlet's slave (7)
Comic to be counted? (5,2)
Preserve carpenter (in a dream) and injure French invalid (6,9)
Number in district where people fight (5)
Make heated and dry? (9)
Geordie resident perversely entertains Yorkshire leader (9)
Faked evidence of factory growth (5)
Holy man in charge of a kirk (5)
Cutter gripping clothes: what happens if he cuts his finger? (9)
Not kind of weather for Freud to be at home? (9)
Fiddle return of game (5)
Fund-raising event by Banbury's leading characters (5,3,3,4)
Old 16 about good man, one with brains (7)
Some bowling by amateur to cover (7)
Appetising, as in drink (7)
Far from 7, with a preference — to imprison rotten cad Kevin (5,3,7)
One putting clock back arrives without carriage (9)
Shy boy's instincts (5)
More to pay for tea during boiling (9)
Prize poster brought about considerable hostility (5)
A tragic love in Deck 1, kidnapped by Scottish fiend, with no hope of revival (4,2,1,8)
Setter drops in, keeping judge from monitor (7)
Spotted snake's head at giant's village — inside was good enough (9)
Columns arranged as fairies would do it? (9)
Crumbly as chips? (7)
Stranger in Dyfed starving and on his last legs (7)
Good shots to point — will get to 50 in time (5)
Both appreciation and disapprobation are forbidden (5)