Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 22nd 2009) 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.

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