This crossword No. 27204 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 May 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27204 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Capital, once a way to make an artist : BONNARD
8-across – Set aside sci-fi film ring : ANNULET
9-across – Big shot: How annoying to be rejected : STAR
10-across – Thrift makes old man cut drink : HUSBANDRY
12-across – Bear stall : STAND
13-across – Not like Cambridge cherry loaf? : REDBRICK
15-across – Sort of bordering on tense : EDGY
16-across – Much abbreviated service offered by some councils to motorists’ family group : PRIDE
17-across – Provided partially overlapping state singer : PIAF
18-across – Get back into the habit of playing to lecher : RECLOTHE
20-across – Second heat gets crowd : SWARM
21-across – Oil neck part with hesitation? : PETROLEUM
22-across – Clio’s motorway exploit? : MUSE
24-across – Puts on shades : SCREENS
25-across – Ego-less, trembling internal light : LANTERN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Son welcomed by fashionable party-giver : HOST
2-down – Cry from wolf, perhaps, breaking gate : ENTREATY
3-down – Mythical sea monster, camouflaged — blooming thing! : ORCHID
4-down – Ground: land used to bring rider to earth : UNSADDLE
5-down – Top champion horse raised : MURDER
6-down – Females gathered for drink : BEVY
11-down – Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil : SORTILEGE
12-down – Spades have advantage on grass : SEDGE
14-down – Wrong to follow cocaine appeal : CHARM
16-down – Cup certain to be too big for its container : POTBOUND
17-down – One in nursery, possibly cultivated yam wearing coat : PLAYMATE
19-down – Refuse transport for patient : LITTER
20-down – Craft’s auxiliary masts tops stuck in bridge : SAMPAN
21-down – Four suits put in case? : PACK
23-down – Fail to stick with one channel sea feature : SURF
This crossword has in total 30 where 15 are across and 15 are down.