The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 22nd May 2009

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd May 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Incorporeal presence returning in "Hamlet" is bewitched
AAcross 1:	Incorporeal presence returning in "Hamlet" is bewitched
AAcross 5:	Posh jerks welcoming qualified person's advance
AAcross 9:	Retiring academic interrupted by Scholar-Gipsy, perhaps
AAcross 10:	Whisper about American substitute conceding own goal
AAcross 11:	Australian herdsman's vernal refreshment in European river
AAcross 12:	Commentary on 1 across left in toilet
AAcross 14:	Resort to beginning of psalm: "Closer to Thee", perhaps?	CLEETHORPES
AAcross 18:	Press in the fast lane?
AAcross 21:	Villain beheaded bird
AAcross 22:	Serially eponymous character — one usurping 1,000 in Montmartre, chaotically …
AAcross 25:	… animal tender almost taking Defender of the Faith for another
AAcross 26:	Politician at 0o?
AAcross 27:	Vessel received by solicitor in attendance
AAcross 27:	Vessel received by solicitor in attendance
AAcross 28:	Space capsule initially filling poet's vacancy
DDown 1:	Opportunity for survivor to adopt name
DDown 2:	Unusually large type of car
DDown 3:	Nice detail rendered coarse
DDown 4:	Monster drops one, going back to German city
DDown 5:	Reveal a Frenchwoman suppressing passion?
DDown 6:	Belted little girl, reportedly
DDown 7:	Haply confused about horse's relief work of sorts
DDown 8:	Fire up motor with second pole reversed, carrying monarch
DDown 13:	Grandiose accommodation for 9 not waterproof on the outside
DDown 15:	Beg to admit church is bound
DDown 16:	Correctly installing high-volume alarm
DDown 17:	Archivist's instrument
DDown 19:	Try hard to produce melody
DDown 20:	Consumer zone sounding like Biblical charity gig?
DDown 23:	Something sung to man or woman
DDown 24:	Elevated whip-round for pancake