Daily Mail Cryptic 14263 Friday June 22nd 2012

[bob561941]

1a Girl in Gatehaed can't be found ???????
5a Female writer's at a nusing centre for pilgrims ??????
9a Student group pens cryptic clue for 'core' ???????
10 a Opens roll of cloth in sun stupidly ???????

Thanks (I'm trying to learn how cryptics work)

[sandyRoe]

5 Fatima

[bibblebub]

1a) missing

9a) nucleus
10a) unfurls

[cathfromsaron]

unbolts (given)

[shooty]

as answered by DannyK and sandyroe earlier.
Fatima.
Female= F, writer's = im which is at centre of at a.
and Fatima is a place of pilgrimage in Portugal

[shooty]

unbolts
anag of SUN + bolt (roll of cloth)

[shooty]

nucleus
NUS (national union of students) + anag of CLUE

[shooty]

missing
miss (girl) + in + G(ateshead)

hope these help you with your parsing.