Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 2nd 2011) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Witty saying has some point with animals (7)
Enigmatic, keen and in charge, set about exercising (7)
Stake for backing a mount (4)
Put up defence and tie game (10)
Fashionable school for cricket, say? (6)
It's discharged in battle during action (8)
Instructing or admonishing (9)
Edits a translation that is in Latin (2,3)
Music of the Depression? (5)
Void contest? (5,4)
Saw baton wielded in Africa (8)
Display by top-class band (6)
How people may call us in explosive competition (10)
Perfect but inconclusive thought (4)
It's used to compose pieces of music (7)
Ship's sails etc split a lot (7)
Last character leaves Cornish town in humiliation (7)
Look back in Middle Ages for capital savers (5)
His is a searching examination, by all accounts (7)
Brush off and polish again (6)
Dine with Ralph, prepared to flirt (9)
The way in which a French painter finally got the point (7)
Espy an admirer, perhaps the answer to this? (7,6)
Bound to be in step — and rated highly (9)
Cave used as an observation post (4,3)
Pipe of pipes (7)
Voting against, told to go and vote for (7)
Wild herb found around Virginia (6)
Being sorry, one called out (5)