Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 25th 2000) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Something of a canard spread about one sleuth? (7)
Berry's description: graduate, county councillor and mischief-maker (7)
Begin following her, eventually (5,4)
Style of King Herod utterly regressive (5)
Offside player's lapse (4)
Instruction to Cromwell's nanny? What a cracker! (4,6)
'e left bits of garlic for one who conquered Paris (6)
Hiss at first-class return to the state (7)
Whisky might flow faster, that is, without soda initially (5,2,4)
Birmingham's pronounced posterior? Hang about! (6)
Just what the doctor ordered? My lips are sealed! (3,2,5)
See 13 (4)
Communicate like a Cicero or a Lawrence (5)
Anger in turning cold is male pacification (9)
Society stayed on line - while he built the Oxonian theatre? (7)
Thaw out now from this rapid response team (7)
Greek characters bearing silver, or man from the east bearing gold etc (5)
Hostility shown to the ailing Bard (3-4)
Hardly a counterfeit coin (4)
Laureate's dicta - or unfinished Newton maths folio, perhaps (3,4,2,6)
Laureate's valediction on the cards? It hardly fails among speculators (8,7)
No neat passage here (6,4)
Let 'em 'ave it in 'ampshire (7)
Pure air contaminated as time replaces power at Wedgwood's plant (7)
Not on your life - or, rather, mine! (4,2,4,4)
Gates opened these? (7)
Payment to pupils on time (7)
Waterloo winner collared and cropped? (7)
My, my! You sound awfully attractive! (5)
See 16 across (4)