Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 9th 2005) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Plead for sound seed to be put into the ground? (9)

Spot about four in a bit of grass (5)

Tree that old Iberians might have found funny? (7,8)

Quick to return to sin (4)

Certain sailors love a stringed instrument (8)

Record colour on object of ill repute (9)

Traveller wearing church cloth (5)

Demonstration of impenetrability? (5)

Appear plump on inspection (4,5)

Curse linked to a flower box (8)

Spoken for a large section (4)

Mercy Pecksniff in nun's guise (6,2,7)

Lived to turn lustful at end (5)

Poet of sorts to guide one in grasping point (9)

Children's publication (5)

Sycophants confined to a sideshow (7)

Complain to a bird (4)

Nymph taken from the chorus (4)

Showing off scholastic achievement (10)

Create confusion at little girl's party (10)

Risk involved in opening flower (7)

Deleted it by mistake in an important document (5,4)

Preliminary excitement at promotion? (10)

Bowing to strange gods, as I do on the French tours, surprisingly (10)

Gloomy journalists, indeed! (9)

Disregard the bishop's position (7)

Put up acceptable commendation (7)

A hen, of course (5)

One girl's painted image (4)

Compelled to hear the female servant (4)

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