The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 21st May 2010

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 21st May 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	As tied at a 26 5?
AAcross 5:	See 26
AAcross 9:	Sound to fix table
AAcross 10:	Composition of 18 found hot girl and went gooey
AAcross 11:	Sort of paper sees giants of literature and fantasy going head to head
AAcross 12:	Overly fussy pedestrian losing head
AAcross 14:	Composition of 18 regularly dropping off
AAcross 18:	Musician having brought back passion, kid holding hand beginning to tremble	ERICCLAPTON
AAcross 21:	See 1
AAcross 22:	Huge sea creature seen as we help, desperately, to protect marines
AAcross 25:	Shame about old member so backward offering bombast
AAcross 26:	Philander separated? This united them!
AAcross 27:	See 10
AAcross 28:	Raise each nine, not one inappropriately
DDown 1:	Spirit with which one's consumed by rage
DDown 2:	One fool (or two overlapping?)
DDown 3:	Russian claims soldier caught for term of rank	SERGEANTCY
DDown 4:	One of eight, perhaps, quarrelsome type?
DDown 5:	Carefully extract bat and lion, then behead Shed!
DDown 6:	It's done up and done down
DDown 7:	Boundless, popular and OK about it
DDown 8:	Yellow fabric called to be woven under green light	GOLDLACE
DDown 13:	Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town
DDown 15:	Get the reason to take someone on again
DDown 16:	Achilles' heel taking some days, say, to find
DDown 17:	Railway worker crashing into lamp
DDown 19:	This could be "Grand", as could be that
DDown 20:	Setter given a pork pie and corn
DDown 23:	It's "frost" to sound and this you've found!
DDown 24:	Air put in tyres on Ghia