This crossword No. 27246 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Jul 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27246 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Upmarket — releasing one backside and pinching another, prone to wrinkles : CRUMPLY
5-across – Lexicographer wearing underpants? : JOHNSON
9-across – Capture look capturing fool : LASSO
10-across – Ink may run into crone’s activity for sunny days : HAYMAKING
11-across – President’s musical 21 mostly tinned : CHAIRWOMAN
12-across – Temporary home of excavations : DIGS
14-across – Starting to catch a jerk stumbling into crevice? Splendid! : CRACKERJACK
18-across – Head of government to OK thoroughfare stopping short of scaffold : GALLOWSTREE
21-across – Flash car carrying nothing back to incubator : WOMB
22-across – Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around : PROCTOLOGY
25-across – Harmlessness of Old Town hosting university pub, previously : INNOCUITY
26-across – Play prosecutor penning sheep : DRAMA
27-across – Rushed around, keeping study caustic : ERODENT
28-across – Unreal train route leads to genuine province : UTRECHT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Material impounded by evangelical iconoclast : CALICO
2-down – Throw aunties out? Not I! : UNSEAT
3-down – Mathematical equipment on side of agricultural vehicle : PROTRACTOR
4-down – Boor’s gleeful exclamation : YAHOO
5-down – Bird and elk embroiled in conflict with careless pedestrian : JAYWALKER
6-down – Try to pick up : HEAR
7-down – Shaky armistice cut short by weapon : SCIMITAR
8-down – Ask again about port : NAGASAKI
13-down – Sponger to dance, wearing jaunty fedora : FREELOADER
15-down – Voiceless, is in a phone company? That’s like something out of Ionesco : ABSURDIST
16-down – Meringue material, for instance, affected weight : EGGWHITE
17-down – Musical genre for sweetheart on top of sergeant, say : FLAMENCO
19-down – Composite picture of patriarch : MOSAIC
20-down – Soldier, perhaps, under war god and despot : TYRANT
23-down – Rodent getting self-effacing cat half-cut : COYPU
24-down – High point of item carried over : ACME
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.