Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 22nd 2016) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 24 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Dispensing with loving gestures, thugs pin me to ground, helpless (8)
Cup replay's final touch by Hearts left back (6)
Secret police force's arrest (6)
Mob wants me to go off in a while, having retreated? (4,4)
Down-and-out, like team with such a record? (4)
Hotel defamation cases during stay not a result of contaminated food (5,5)
Got off just over halfway through dismal government-free existence (7)
Letters you see to be typed, for example S-K-I-P T-E-A (7)
They're not even occasional painkillers! (3,7)
Grand military official's losing it (4)
Lincoln pub given the go-ahead in key letters (8)
Time allowed for preparation once varied with it (6)
Literary man's endless fun, hosting evening of poetry (6)
The reason solicitor's reported heavy blizzard (5-3)
Element divider flexibly accommodating ununoctium (the last) (6,9)
Cheers solvers are barred from getting (3,8,4)
Redevelopment of East End integral to total object of perception (5,5)
Very impressive visit without telephone (7)
A couple one bumped into on the rebound? (4)
So makeshift team did it at last? (7,8)
Its members say they've made it up (3,4-4,4)
Making merry a bit insane while away! (2,8)
Dissident went and won Hemel Hempstead? (3,4)
Vehicle heading for Hertfordshire wilderness (4)