The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 Jan 09

• Answer by half the people, or all of them (4) Crossword Clue
• A short whisky say at noon that dulls the pain (7) Crossword Clue
• Attempted murderer maybe has a bit of respect for one old lag (8) Crossword Clue
• Book Month: nothing surpasses a good book (6) Crossword Clue
• Festival you will shortly open getting closer (6) Crossword Clue
• For Aristotle and Euclid to appear from the start among elements of basic education is not so normal (5) Crossword Clue
• For Linnaeus, say, maggot active isn't bad (8) Crossword Clue
• Half a ball missing in match (4) Crossword Clue
• I censor a depraved plot summary (8) Crossword Clue
• I'm surprised, eating cereal, it sticks to the chin (6) Crossword Clue
• In life, king's vigour (4) Crossword Clue
• Its journey being through Russian city, one van avoiding periphery (4) Crossword Clue
• Jam pot's first in hamper (5) Crossword Clue
• Learnt about income from property (6) Crossword Clue
• Lecturer gives this pain, to secure first in Italian (9) Crossword Clue
• Mayfly makes border in record time (8) Crossword Clue
• New love in the far north for a number? (8) Crossword Clue
• Not happy about one having to mount platform (4) Crossword Clue
• One composer and another shortly visiting down under (7) Crossword Clue
• Postwar children pack large underclothes (8) Crossword Clue
• Scientist forced to lie long ago: no good coming out of that (7) Crossword Clue
• Scold shedding a tear over Trump's policy, something biblical (9) Crossword Clue
• Shorebird from the pole (5) Crossword Clue
• Sport, an energy-filled fight (4) Crossword Clue
• Taking afternoon off, make for island (5) Crossword Clue
• Time to cut down forest for first book in series (3,6) Crossword Clue
• Turning stomachs, dirty talk (4) Crossword Clue
• Vain man from Apple for one with tidy hair (7) Crossword Clue
• Why Norwegian king can't relieve himself? (4) Crossword Clue
• Young swimmer constantly circling lake (5) Crossword Clue