This crossword No. 28041 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 Jan 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28041 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Who would happily make you smart : SADIST
4-across – Could be pet’s collar, missing top piece : RABBIT
9-across – Satisfied to clean and beat cloth : FULL
10-across – A holy play brought in to stir up Windsor? : ROYALHOUSE
11-across – Digger said to be made sexually unproductive : SPAYED
12-across – Four obliged to join a decentralised rally : BOUNDARY
13-across – Ground earth to be removed from border fortress : EDGBASTON
15-across – Ride south with Peg : SPIN
16-across – Plant’s day off : DILL
17-across – Almost share in public function : OPERATION
21-across – Old person says ‘rain dances’ : ASSYRIAN
22-across – Key exercise to cut pound? : OPENER
24-across – Two-tongued individual, bachelor utilising mobile : BILINGUIST
25-across – Cast getting drunk over at premiere of Shrek : TOSS
26-across – Stones gathered at bottom of cliff before new show : SCREEN
27-across – Tuck, the musical, gets a new lead : CREASE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Dismissed and baffled : STUMPED
2-down – Catch the sheep? : DOLLY
3-down – Banks of getting temperature right inside trousers : STRIDES
5-down – Completely exhausted, disagree on going topless : ALLOUT
6-down – Rex withdraws from foxhunting, possibly result of pricked finger? : BLOODSPOT
7-down – Hampshire river flow try-out : TESTRUN
8-down – Heavily used when preparing to play the pantomime villain, eastern boy Prince Lew, maybe? : EYEBROWPENCIL
14-down – 1960s’ play and film, featuring American club with revolving bar : BILLYLIAR
16-down – Vicious comeback by female? Pay no heed : DISMISS
18-down – Bird shown as ‘duck’ in list : ROOSTER
19-down – Manage to put rhyme into Anglo-Saxon language : OVERSEE
20-down – Confess member’s short of $1,000, for the record : SINGLE
23-down – One of those who makes a film host? : EXTRA
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.