The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 9th May 2005

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 9th May 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Plead for sound seed to be put into the ground?
AAcross 6:	Spot about four in a bit of grass
AAcross 9:	Tree that old Iberians might have found funny?
AAcross 10:	Quick to return to sin
AAcross 11:	Certain sailors love a stringed instrument
AAcross 14:	Record colour on object of ill repute
AAcross 15:	Traveller wearing church cloth
AAcross 16:	Demonstration of impenetrability?
AAcross 18:	Appear plump on inspection	LOOKROUND
AAcross 20:	Curse linked to a flower box
AAcross 21:	Spoken for a large section
AAcross 25:	Mercy Pecksniff in nun's guise	SISTEROFCHARITY
AAcross 26:	Lived to turn lustful at end
AAcross 27:	Poet of sorts to guide one in grasping point
DDown 1:	Children's publication
DDown 2:	Sycophants confined to a sideshow
DDown 3:	Complain to a bird
DDown 4:	Nymph taken from the chorus
DDown 5:	Showing off scholastic achievement
DDown 6:	Create confusion at little girl's party
DDown 7:	Risk involved in opening flower
DDown 8:	Deleted it by mistake in an important document
DDown 12:	Preliminary excitement at promotion?
DDown 13:	Bowing to strange gods, as I do on the French tours, surprisingly
DDown 14:	Gloomy journalists, indeed!
DDown 17:	Disregard the bishop's position
DDown 19:	Put up acceptable commendation
DDown 22:	A hen, of course
DDown 23:	One girl's painted image
DDown 24:	Compelled to hear the female servant