Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 21st 2015) clues of The Guardian Quiptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 27 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Inflame family that’s led astray (6)
Lecture when spirit is trapped inside (8)
Received account for sheets of paper, 500 (8)
Short sailor Rex put out (6)
Had rights and changed a challenging criterion (4,8)
Iron Lawrence found at the fair (4)
Model, one playing musical instrument (8)
Pull the French king from fighter (8)
Parent, one new to Head (4)
Welsh ferries set out for fairground rides (6,6)
Initially no improvement made by accepting student quickly (6)
Branch our journalist protected (8)
Poke fun at cruel idiot, mostly drunk (8)
Commoner boy‘s mixed up with don (6)
Villain cheated a bit to make slow progress (4)
Issues of a feminine nature (9)
Anger near criminal, for example, being upset (6)
Behaving very oddly — furious, like a demo over hair, reportedly (3,2,1,5,4)
Study can make something legible (8)
Look up racy image, displayed initially for to be shocking (5)
Excellent boy in charge, when moving at very high speed (10)
Ruling is in trouble, but it's not absolute (6,4)
Failed attempt at bad, bad quips about Mike (4,5)
Benediction not to be sneezed at! (8)
Hesitation married son deviously hides in discourse (6)
Barbie almost cooked for Jewish scholar (5)
Minister to nurse (4)