Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 24th 2009) 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.

Parent at home to couple getting spliced? (9)
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Catch a girl to love (5)
Heroin substitute should be, in my view (9)
Roadside worker, one to land at sea? (7)
Revolutionary poem? No, a rude composition (7)
Referee with his belt turning to cow? (7-6)
Graceful, innit? — playing on the wild side (7,6)
Inconclusive assault on man with case (7)
Further entry into prison (7)
French writer (not English) on board with rifles (5,4)
Revolution without its first complaint (5)
20's half hidden in the open when there's no sun (8)
Setter with a monitoring device fitted about to transport him to prison (4,5)
Catastrophe for officer, partner to Jones, among other ranks? (8)
Popular group sees the smaller picture (5)
Fans can be unreliable in their enthusiasm (4,3,3,4)
Shakespearean lord of the Golden Blackbird (7)
In which Henry VII rallied his troops to make slaves (7)
L-shaped bar in a longer form (5,4)
Prance around — the last way to treat a ball? (6)
What is this Jersey? An exercise in vowel sounds? (3,3,5,3)
Embarrassed by finding items of Royal Mail late as ever (3,2,4)
Flag on vessel as young as ever? (5,3)
There's about zero miles from what can be proved (7)
Prison as acknowledgment of game (7)
Lieutenant caught the fool in 10 10 (6)
Forward way to Tipperary (5)