Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 12th 2013) 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.

It returns the part the Church keeps (5)
French perhaps sing solver's one anthem (8)
Irrigation for Zimbabwe at last: an answer to prayers sent up (5)
Creepy ghoul eats beast, exploits socially unacceptable growth promoted here (11)
Solver taking on psychic sees, as might appear hazily, the power of subliminal suggestion (3,6,2,3,7)
After victory, reconstruct (liberate outright) (9)
See 1
Presented headless first, it's said, for the dead came back (8)
Soaring mountain road missing from visitant's haunt (6)
A historic drink at pub (5)
Potions said to cause livid hue (5)
Seance appears really inexplicable at first but, as you say, it's a fabrication! (4)
Blame the frost? He's upset about a Xmas bloom (4,2,9)
Long odds of tango and cha-cha foes dancing together (1,5,2,1,6)
See 10
Morse, perhaps, out in sound and vision (7)
Awful, stumbling hag on dance programme missing trick, you say? (7)
Hollowly beatify dead souls? From the start, let them be (7)
Harass people involved in wrongdoing (7)
Phantoms from below, heralded by sulphur (6)
Much to-do from zealotry at heart, on and on, using psychic powers on dead? (1,3,2,4,5)
Number (one transcending 50) and one of its qualities (6)
See 10
’70s rock instrument used in Wales (9)
Communicate with those we miss, who bequeath £10? (5,1,4)
Perhaps put Boatman in work — a lot of it! (6)
Back pointless meeting: the man is after nothing? That's a record (3,2,4)
It's not vital to get tipsy from potion (2,2,6)