Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (July 23rd 2012) clues of The Guardian Quiptic 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.

Politician involved in smear goes to earth in usual hangout (8,6)
Artist with US band has trademark shirt (9)
A doctor's bitten by oddly mean snake (5)
Knock up cradle with hardwood (5)
Animals long kept in pens hate going out (9)
I'd take on student having seen disastrous results ending in laziness (8)
Poor Master Brook (6)
Bother to come back and fire French foreman (6)
Biscuit Mum takes Joey in prison (8)
Demoted Socialist member dined in (9)
Ready to fight (3-2)
Task I've managed partly to get out of doing (5)
River is liability without oxygen, being full of toxins (9)
The Tate, for example, has painting and really good sculpture (7,7)
BBC bring us production on career for cleaner (9,5)
Senior officer takes Russian vehicle up to orbit space station (7)
Change coming over arch-criminal, perhaps? (9)
No point having feeling without meaning (8)
About time! Pull up at the side of the road (6)
Get up and go very fast, heading off (5)
Chosen one's born without honour at home (7)
Average man with debt gets crafty in a mean way (14)
Dodgy mushroom with toast's keeping daughter bent over toilet (9)
Hanging back to see old bird get fish after diving, initially (8)
Pitched to cool independent film director (7)
Open University book includes chapter as a result (7)
Puts active alternative to lethargy (6)
Welcome to get soldiers in (5)