Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 23rd 2019) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Nobelist in job, a man avoiding extremes? (5)
Preserve a lake after divine leader backed waterway (4,5)
Plant variety of rose ahead of time in bad weather (9)
Couple holding hands, consum­ing punch or wine, not 18 (5)
Given old hat on entering (7)
All in our town changed (4,3)
Miles covered by you earlier — today it's 14 (5)
Far from right, it may be taken as read by listeners (3)
Part of Florida house, home to some Americans (5)
Endlessly vacillate before a game try (4,1,2)
Contrived to share what's within it, we hear (7)
5, 8, and 18 mixed for PM once (5)
See 29
Arrangement of 18 24 for keyboard instrument (4,5)
Immature party type (5)
Performances in Japan around a skipper 14 cheered (4)
Writer and architect clad in decorative fabric (8)
Wise kind of 31 (4)
Irishman, for instance, Brendan badmouths (8)
Utter expression of pain, like coward (6)
One concerned about climate, or a crew at sea outside port (3-7)
I like nothing about new source of dye (6)
Oxbridge student in team of 21 down (4)
Like house of 24's spouse (5)
Work of 2 that's a kind of 16 (3,7)
Recommend cast across river for fish (5)
Not looking forward to start of dance lesson, say (8)
Area rented in the south for people having events (8)
Flower girl is very strong (name withheld) (6)
Fruit from African port, for example, sent north (6)
Time for chat, say (4)
Wild party first four in 14 initially arranged (4)
Confuse no solvers about French author's novel (4,3,6)