Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 17th 2008) 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.

Clambers up to sign (6)
Buckle isn't worn to show defiance (3,5)
Decline to take the easy way (8)
Alternative queue for Americans going to town? (2,4)
Ponders initial loss by customs (4)
Gaudy old pulpit traced by knowing worker (10)
Token of love interrupting part of service: touching! (6)
Sailor is withering about passenger (8)
A modicum of personal covering provided by the recess (6)
Lines that complain bitterly at Method (7)
Concealed weapon in jam, catching verbal row (10)
Cancel cleanup? (5)
Offend greatly at first and confess (4)
Quarter taken in by the palmist's curl of the lip (5)
Settled to live as a theologian, bounded by eastern sea (8)
Passionate desire to party in country interminably retreating (6)
River with unpleasant smell: note the course (5)
Wimp accepts success that's due to formal dress (5,3)
Competently keeps back clutter in meeting (8)
Bold lawyer with quirky grin (6)
Squinting, start off with back lanes (7)
Poor show? So do encores! Be careful what you say (6,4,5)
Joins with beginners to learn in new kids' school (5)
No Verne? No Tintin comic? No meddling! (3-12)
Stays, as of old, for a drink (9)
Jet flier? (9)
Remarkably few real creature comforts (7)
Held back from warning about globe (7)