No 9500, Tuesday, 07 Apr 09, Nita Jaggi

Lot of question marks in my solutions for today. The length of the clues are still too long
ACROSS
1 - Give an account of the French journalist (8) - {DE}{SCRIBE}
5 - Irritated a woman over a bit of the thing (4) - {F}{RE}{T}
9 - Thousand workers cover the German in searches conducted (8) - {M}{AN{HUN}TS}
10 - Almost mark one active rock (6) - {SCAR}{I}{A} ?? Why almost mark ?
12 - Prophet inside a house erected (4) - SEER [T]
13 - Able to withstand the evidence following an emotional disturbance (5-5) - SHOCK PROOF [CD]
15 - What happens to an editor when the blood does not reach the arteries? (3,11) - BAD CIRCULATION [CD]
17 - State of being liable for the written record by hand for one settled at the end of the day (14) - {ACCOUNT}ABIL{I}T{Y} Annotation eludes
21 - Her glance is to order around the student contestant (10) - CHAL{L}ENGER*
22 - Health resort has a lot of junk mail (4) - {SPA}{M}
25 - Alternatively, turn back to the scholar being not specific about the good book (6) - RO<-{MA}{NS}
26 - Epic poem has a long series of adventures (8) - ODYSSEYS
27 - Reported to sleep lightly having a portion of medicine (4) - DOSE (~doze)
28 - Stage films at festivals (8) - RELEASES Annotation eludes me
DOWN
1 - End of the wrong side covering half of them (6) - D{EM}ISE*
2 - Slight burn on the surface is an offense, for example to be taken up (5) - {SIN}GE<- 3 - Cut off an open way for a confused crowd of people (4) - ROUT (-e)
4 - Herb cut is scattered by the slaughterer (7) - BUTCHER*
6 - Part of a plant is in the container (10) - RECEPTACLE [2]
7 - One to instill fear is a member of a militant group (9) - TERRORIST [CD]
8 - Cast off things in lunch affairs (5) - CHAFF [T]
11 - Oddly, each round has colour (4) - {E}{C}{R}{U}
14 - Clean the large city in bits of nodes of regions having less vegetation (10) - {SCRUB}{LA}{N(-o)D(-e)S}
16 - Approved of an amateur around to calm one kind of an editor (9) - AC{CLA{I}M*}{ED} Amateur AC ?
18 - Note the vibrant shade of a colour (4) - TONE*
19 - Group of workers ride high in a drinking game (4,3) - {BEE}{R DIE}* Never heard of such a game if my answer is correct. Group of workers should be BEE and not just BEE
20 - Keeps people entertained in the morning for us to be at ease (6) - AM{US}{E}S Origin of second S not clear
21 - Restores the health of the parish priest on Saturday (5) - {CURE}{S}
23 - President as in the print media (5) - PRESS (~pres)
24 - Passageway without article, is on land surrounded by water (4) - ISLE (-t)