The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 Aug 18

• Almost mad Greek character stood up for deputy (5) Crossword Clue
• As usual, ice cracks and splits vessel - not a tragedy (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Bananas turning bowl over (4) Crossword Clue
• Beggar can expose housing secret (6) Crossword Clue
• Carrot and thyme salad with round fruit? (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Child's play, so bound to be on the booze (9) Crossword Clue
• Clubhouse extension of course? (10,4) Crossword Clue
• Comical descent of creatures that fly around house (6) Crossword Clue
• Cross borne by bitter Rod? (4) Crossword Clue
• Defiant, having capsized off England's south coast? (8) Crossword Clue
• Engrave council official's initials on mountain top device (8) Crossword Clue
• Everyone needs a means of holding flights when quite trembly (3,7) Crossword Clue
• Famous person's not finished wearing kid's jewellery (8) Crossword Clue
• 'Funny business' as sad colleagues of sacked police commissioner are heard to say? (8) Crossword Clue
• In desperation I curse like the Greeks of old (5) Crossword Clue
• Pain getting dimwit to be a wiseacre (8) Crossword Clue
• Part of blind alley, perhaps, outside city (4) Crossword Clue
• Passage from A Meeting Place (6) Crossword Clue
• People who fall for footwear (8) Crossword Clue
• Player's agent having celebrity status (15) Crossword Clue
• Say Green Sapphire tops Fire and Brimstone as a paint option (8) Crossword Clue
• Sea-monster, Komodo dragon outwardly, swallowing playboy (6) Crossword Clue
• See 8 Crossword Clue
• Spike senior snatching week off (6) Crossword Clue
• Two jobs and one's left both - dearie, dearie me! (3,3) Crossword Clue
• Voluntary fees from 'Little Darling' (gold vocal number) (9) Crossword Clue
• Way one's stricken with primarily genetic cause of disease (8) Crossword Clue