Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (July 17th 1999) clues of The Guardian Prize 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.

Oft recited opening caught from Himalayan threnody on socket left out where he'd looted, perhaps (6,1,3-4,6,4,2)
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Head in charge of the matter (5)
Such children classed as having more than a whale of a time? (6-3)
Board members only here? ... (5,4)
... members going on benders? On the contrary (5)
The ram's horn blown, not hot as yet (2,3)
"He is brought ______ the slaughter" (Isaiah): (Absalom at slaying) (2,1,4,2)
Practices on the Whispering Glades fleet? (9)
Dull, but dry in the West! (5)
Muse and friend fired thus? (15)
Where the Irish dip their biscuits in lentil puree? Quite the reverse (7)
Bound to get a roasting? (7)
Enzymic attempt on power twitch (7)
Mirror's objective seen though a glass darkly? (7,2,3,3)
One casting out our possessions (9)
Smith and Jones, say, follow-ing a nautical royal rising (5)
No hope, alas, for one born with a curious hatred of the novel (9)
Proportional representation (5)
Trouble with one's nerve's needing creature comforts (3-5,7)
They are put out by opinion seekers (7)
One seeking more than a pound of flesh in the main? (4,5)
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English riders assembled in close formation (7)
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Whence 20,1across left from a holiday home (5)
Has a peculiar interest, perhaps, in this mystic lady (5,7)