Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 5th 2016) 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.

Going to the dogs? (6,2,6)
Yachtsman changing course heard to be the one jeering (5)
Ivor's out to become a skilled performer (8)
Might one disappear into it at the top of Everest? (4,3)
Tramp a priest converted (7)
Teacher's pet is short of time (5)
One ringing to warn you of danger? (5,4)
Fool holds sister with strange puzzle (9)
Head of school, goody-goody young man (5)
Leaving unannounced for an away match (7)
He charges a couple of hundred to the employer (7)
After Greta perhaps, Ted identified as a victim (8)
Protection with strings attached (5)
Grant free film in circulation (7,7)
Story with a poor beginning but a capital ending (4-2-6)
Give a name to first-class city of Arabia (5)
Ran up share account (9)
Soldiers welcome sailors inside foreign restaurant (7)
The bare ingredients of a brew up (4,3)
A lump in one's throat (5)
Paper said to come out and leave no trace (9)
One looking for scraps may show it (12)
Wish for a pleasant journey from France (3,6)
Form of variety before the ’50s, much as I recollected (5,4)
A target set out for meeting at sea (7)
Turn, or intend to turn, Communist (7)
Warm place in the singing lesson (5)
Open return to southern country (5)