Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 27th 2012) 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.

It's not cheap to build a monument (8)
Sea off Tripoli with a leitmotif? (6)
Oddly puts on pretensions of being at a higher level (8)
Writer of letters to the Queen? (6)
Dances with a shadow minister (5)
Each test one plays is artistic (9)
Minister the senior service finds dotty, as is the coalition (12)
Brief turn by Waller, loud with 12, needing extra hands (5-7)
Digital sketch? (9)
Sound of sound poet (5)
Fruit may be elevating, though not entirely (6)
Red not English, but may be hidden in the closet (8)
Tropical ailment? (6)
Old college learned about student with several languages (8)
Caroline's first partner, a man of substance (6)
Get cosy with a food provider? (6)
Model raced to practise athletics, maybe train … (9)
… track for each chap went variably with a variable (9,3)
Former minister seen in the Carlton or the Athenaeum (5)
Contend with French actor turning up in the distance (8)
Order heartless lady requires at once (8)
Molesworth's version of "It is a truth universally acknowledged … ” (2,3,4,3)
Enter scruffy friend without end (9)
Description of strange coteries? (8)
Answer for a punctured tyre? (8)
Arm spoilt in more ways than one? (6)
Note returned by a cheese-maker (6)
She's about to live free — or the converse? (5)