Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 20th 2010) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Rose's part as old character (5)
Preserve part of body a boy found in northeastern state (9)
European politician on the left accepting nothing we authorised (9)
Half-heartedly refrain from seasonal performance? That's unusual (5)
Author's irritation about endless bias (7)
Ie NATO's new country (7)
12 by 13, 5 26 down, 26 across 27, or 9 plus 31, possibly (5,3,5)
See 17
See 17
Is going back a long way for such rhetorical devices (7)
International base where engines are checked (4,3)
Cut back a radius in kind of circle (5)
Come and go, say, in workplaces around river (9)
A client I'd represented, lacking distinction? (9)
Be quiet? Wrong (5)
This starts swelling, troubling your eye (4)
German, for example, like Berlin (8)
Experience no sound (4)
Arm with bullet, mostly arranged for protection (8)
Irishwoman cut part of nose (6)
Makes attractive new version of message in short time (10)
Religious leader producin' new bull, perhaps (6)
Prepared fir or pine to divide deck (4)
A lot of species of antelope seen round East (5)
Enliven with strange tale I hear about kiss (10)
Pest one introduced to a high degree (5)
Go out with friend, initially meeting under tree (4,4)
Release victim held in plebeian uprising (8)
Tropical novelist and playwright (6)
Put an end to place for rest of children in school (6)
Three, four, or five, say — over one or two (4)
Across a shoulder — that's where you'll find it (4)
Adjust temperature in animal's home (4)