Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 20th 2020) 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.

One may go up in a few ticks (4,4)
Alluring, one's castle (6)
Plain, nothing to excite cockney (2-6)
Sort of chest that may be scraped (6)
Order thesaurus in online form? (5)
Relatives reform, being adaptable (9)
British legislating blasted for its bad language (12)
Staying in bed, say, a great honour for a body (5,2,5)
The Commonwealth: it could hardly be more distant from Britain (9)
Refuse left by dyke builder (5)
Giving a signal to be lining up for hearing (6)
Officer rank needed to win a seat? (8)
Getting to the end of this exhausts one's patience (6)
Flag when monarch's aboard ship (8)
Sensitive to pain in small boat (6)
Almost making a mess of cake (6)
Looking offended, finding bit of toenail in small fish (9)
Man forcefully expelling one with ill will (12)
Some small Amazonian animal (5)
Alarming to be treated as almost irrelevant (8)
Served in the army? Not one joined (8)
Dancing, a girl hadn't to lose all momentum (5,2,1,4)
Italian speaking in a whisper (5,4)
Respectably neat, is one less likely to be infected? (5-3)
Teacher locked up, being wasted (8)
Assert a company must employ female (6)
One taking piano course? (6)
What storms do, circling northern mountains (5)