Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 3rd 2023) 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.

Backing spoils instrument (4)
Measuring device for farm vehicle (10)
Waterproof covering setter in rickety train (9)
Back row in Palladium booked in advance (11)
Courts approve standard (9)
Broadcast overlooks woman's entitlement (3)
Uncompromising firm's leading chain (8)
Put straight tabloid's missing section with ferocious expression (7)
Direct lots of deliveries here from time to time (7)
Capital tour, lastly to coral island (7)
Lottery raised a good deal — order British to split it (7)
This precursor of flood proving ruinously expensive (8,3,4)
Strong drink artist put up on shelf (6)
Male jockeys tucked into cereal, a taboo food nowadays? (5,4)
Choice morsel of Brie? Precisely (5)
Minions have no means of access, one cell being shared (7)
Teasing adult I see in very old hat (7)
Criticise mean bribe (3,2)
Devious follower aiming to kidnap a king (7,2,6)
Passivity I confronted primarily in country (8)
Outbids American wallies, extreme characters taken in (7)
Tropical bird's gullet swallowing roughly (5)
Former English West Country banker (3)
Make sense of dignitary made public (6,3)
Big adjustable spanner a boon to estuary's shipping (5,6)
They cut bill dropped by flyers at sea (6)
Translating a poet is no Yankee idler's preference (4,6)
Itinerant mounted police working across America (7)
Bearing children is always painful (4)
Go after opponents at table, then prosecute (5)