Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (September 24th 2002) 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.

Book the return passage (6)
Donne's topped in a way by something of Petrarch's (6)
Part of 9 and 1 across ravaging ie rural France (5,8)
Fugitive with a record (Hear me out!) left (9)
Wasted time after she didn't marry the writer (8)
How oral evidence is presented, apparently (2,2,4)
Old Ford's highly placed houses (6)
Caribbean characters promoted in surrealist's festival (6)
Barren black betrayal (5)
A miss from August and, with time, a miss from Will (6)
Notables then, not-ables now? (3-5)
"R loves me whole-heartedly!" (1 across)? (5)
Cast aggressively before fish in fine feathers (5,4)
Dethrone and sit on one dangerously (9)
Accommodation with hot water in Yorkshire (5)
Unravelling a logic, denser as compressed would you say? (5-7)
Subtle St Michael, the Destroyer (3,9)
Bad odour has the prince leaving the platform (5)
Forms of public transport by the Tiber, say (9)
Certain an assortment is sent? (2,1,6)
Energy backing the last word in irrigation (5)
They are hot and cold around the Southwark and Lambeth area (8)
Takes trouble with daughter? Cousins did! (6)
One or the other litigated in 22 12 to preserve North Aberdeen airport (8)
Blair ignoring Tyneside to hold service in Cyprus (8)
Remove old oil refinery in some measure (5)
America's epistolist with a satiric look East, perhaps (8,5)
One assuming the lead in "The Mousetrap"? (3,6)