Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 31st 2013) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 26 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Strategy requiring instrument to keep quiet (4,4)
Move aimlessly and pick up something useful (6)
Image of record artist-in-residence curtailed (8)
Let off school during engagement (8)
Fabled compiler's not entirely stupid (6)
Purveyor of pork pies raised by bird (4)
Outside left looking hard at bird (8)
Thatcher dispatching soldier's fount of wisdom (4)
Cooking implement getting first-rate cooker's first-rate backing, inducing non-specific neurosis (11)
Art of Chinese sleuths raised aquatic transport (10)
Misguidedly train as practitioner of 12 (7)
Renown of big eater eating what's left to eat, initially (8)
Sideways, subsequently, on a plate (7)
Misconstrued Fay's plea to hedge bets (4,4)
Split a horny model's nose job (11)
Shady lady's second instrument (8)
Blade's about to become increasingly promiscuous? (8)
Quit application, finally causing ferment (6)
Film: Daddy's Girl (6)
Improvised performance in musical, back to front (4)
Dater's compromise? (5-3)
Island's translation of Bible into German? Yes! (4)
Never, ever, ever restricting worship (6)
Countryside interrupting outcome? (6)
Drink rings bell in Market Road (10)
Party-giver accepting clipped old coin for feast (3,5)