This crossword No. 27207 clues and answers were published on Fri 26 May 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27207 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – A small drink including minimum of table wine for starters : ANTIPASTI
10-across – Scrub backs in the lower area, various vertebrae : ERASE
11-across – Utter fool to get help : SUCCOUR
12-across – More war-wounded, number hard to forget? : EARWORM
13-across – Channel slips by this? : GULLY
14-across – Extreme agony among legation trained to embrace sport : INGROWING
16-across – Man of God in Ireland, eg reformed chief executive : DIRECTORGENERAL
19-across – Army rank rejected in case of gerund being a lexicographical oddity : GHOSTWORD
21-across – Small group covering article in soil, turned over : TRIAD
22-across – See 14 : TOENAIL
23-across – See 25 : HEARING
24-across – Man bit arm : PIECE
25-across – Cutting hedges optional — sense avoiding the thorny bits? : SELECTIVE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Long canine in Dracula, I guess, as long when oddly shaped? : SAUSAGEDOG
2-down – Label outlining conclusion of anal pedant : STICKLER
3-down – Weird seeing something brown in blue : SPOOKY
4-down – Druggie into Jailhouse Rock : USER
5-down – Free design smeared on grey : DISENGAGED
6-down – Slowly drain English river and Irish county : WEARDOWN
7-down – Thespian, one supporting someone with a ladder : JACOBI
8-down – See 23 : TERM
14-down – Faith being questioned in party heading for office, amid dubious claims : ICONOCLASM
15-down – Avaricious type like godhead coming in earlier after greedy principal : GOLDDIGGER
17-down – Salts with it in boxes : CITRATES
18-down – Having scratched bottom, chance to embrace scent around rear of khazi, causing inflammation of nose : RHINITIS
20-down – Specialist with bat or jemmy, perhaps? : OPENER
21-down – Suspicion surrounding Beethoven’s Ninth in electronic music : TRANCE
22-down – Mistake reporting Italian river in Bangkok? : TYPO
23-down – Break in end of paragraph where N-Z found to include L : HALF
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.