This crossword No. 27403 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27403 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – School flooded by water — an event on a special day there? : SPEECH
4-across – Plain course of action read out : STEPPE
9-across – Care for less than a shilling in old money : TEND
10-across – Hide male in a foul cage after beating : CAMOUFLAGE
11-across – Calling someone concerned about recreational drug : CAREER
12-across – Legal right allowing oriental fellows to occupy their quarter : EASEMENT
13-across – Speed with which wine goes to head after end of lunch : HASTINESS
15-across – Ear’s twitching after second bit of gossip : OTIC
16-across – Firm doing better as result of masterstroke : COUP
17-across – How we count, see, showing passion : INTENSELY
21-across – Try to recruit leader, one for Everest expedition : HEADHUNT
22-across – Spirit a Parisian gets before feast : UNDINE
24-across – Crude weapon that could be nasty problem to British : PETROLBOMB
25-across – Birds making sad noises, any number gone : MOAS
26-across – Host in minimal attire outside front of restaurant : THRONG
27-across – Farming complex needs good stretch of country : GRANGE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Unusual sonata, nothing to be missed, this person’s penned? : SMETANA
2-down – US singer’s CD reached No 1, surprisingly : EDDIE
3-down – See 2 : COCHRAN
5-down – What’s obviously right is repressed by president endlessly : TRUISM
6-down – All-round experts in HE establishment no longer having single academic discipline : POLYMATHS
7-down – Brussels officer in charge of a controversial selection procedure : EUGENIC
8-down – What may come from inane impostor? : IMPERSONATION
14-down – The reporter initially has to keep working for the Times : THUNDERER
16-down – Cold time of austerity with me put in as PM : CLEMENT
18-down – Sign up to introduce honoured member producing a European code : ENUMBER
19-down – Row, given time, leads to blood : LINEAGE
20-down – Dark, ’orrible place to the north hiding bright light — quite the opposite : SULLEN
23-down – Baddie having a brief time in wicked place? : DEMON
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.