Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (September 23rd 2021) 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.

6's brief smile, fake (7)
Local worker, margin squeezed in trade (9)
Saw long coat, metre (5)
Almost having taken head off, order dismissal (5,4)
Wound cord before judge (8)
See 8
Drink inferior to sea water reportedly limited (4,4)
Hopeful hellfire ultimately denied in Eve's reluctance to partake of forbidden fruit? (9)
See 19
Loud, one needing quiet after kid turned up (6)
Straight punch catching back of Fulham supporter (4)
Top off, cook (5)
A zip's caught — whoopee! (6)
6's atop wall? (6)
See 26
Child, one accommodated in large shed (5)
Resident in Mississippi, a not unerringly trained listener (5,5)
6's vessel on stream (9)
Blade's ego? (4)
State goes out with a dictator (6)
Curious tree was top (7)
Joy to behold finally, a grandmaster (4)
Leg across always in cramped quarters (8)
Cast of Cats, say? (7)
Name Welsh artist and English pop star (4)
Characters regularly seen in small-town shop (5)
Ill-prepared monarch sheltered, having lost crown at sea (8)
Cut in refinement, get work by 14 of more than one 6? (3,9)
It, for example, requires change of kit in port on the Mersey (4,5)
Lexicographical publication, old, old manuscript (5)
Rough stuff, one caught by filly that's rolled over (5)
6's blunder, one line back (2,5)
Mathematician who screwed up? (10)