Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 3rd 2006) 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.

Western man after start of hockey game (6)
A writer, having died, gets attributed (8)
Small cleansing plant (6)
Terminal battle? (8)
Wild flower bard complained about (7,7)
Corporal, say, interrupting game on deck is a twit (10)
Fruit for the audience? That's not fair (4)
Characters from "A Winter's Tale" formerly (4)
Fool fools American birds (10)
Composer regards a wilder composer? (3,6,5)
Regular soldiers meeting hot shot do get cross (8)
Roman leader's watching out for Roman poet (6)
Playing darts? Yes, in leisure time (4,4)
Timber provided by household god as building material (6)
Part of a lock, part with a spring (4)
Mawkish poem by Tennyson about love (7)
After a capital party, on with the dance! (8)
How a leading actor came over as a Shakespearean lover? (4-7)
French town house vacated in the Borders (6)
Trendy Greek dramatist before running to seed (7)
Is Orlando resort for dead things? (9)
Former scheme a politician is clarifying (11)
Physicist having his Nobel presentation? Right! (5,4)
Isles in the Channel Islands left outlying isles out? (8)
Cloud seen by composer over centre of Austria (7)
Good news for supporter after a quarter to five? (7)
Film-maker on the outskirts of Dunsinane climbing a lot of trees (2,4)
Confused impression created by publisher's recommendation, mostly (4)