Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 20th 2009) clues of The Guardian Everyman 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.

Candle holder about to be stuck into cake (6)
Programme information ringed by girl (6)
Vertical pipe, part of boiler I serviced (5)
English poet and Scottish one nearly surrounded by pigs (9)
Anger about British band in part of the US (5,4)
Is desperate for massages, reportedly (5)
Greeting shames incompetent fools, surprisingly (11,2,3,6)
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Bacteriologist treated tripe (5)
Lazy types exhausted, last in heats (9)
Poet in saddle on eastern hilltop (9)
Mount Carmel's first section (5)
Crude fox's burrow at end of spinney (6)
Open out a French bap (6)
Writer's attribute article ignored (6)
Almost take place next to principal brought over after duck dish (4,5)
Swear remedy must include touch of sun (5)
Crack crackers and become very angry (2,7)
Slow-moving shark in harbour (5)
Reluctant to produce a limerick? (6)
Conceited dandy led the way (5-6)
Lacking self-control, consuming alcohol to excess (11)
A short journey inside border for a venerable old lady (9)
Oarsman in races representing country (3,6)
Parisian gangster quickly hiding heroin (6)
Girl is first person to be murdered (6)
Left in row for roof worker (5)
Meat embargo hampering small company (5)