This crossword No. 28047 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Feb 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28047 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Had maiden caught in cold shower some offensive words? : HATEMAIL
5-across – Plan to get English degree after school : SCHEMA
9-across – Form 1 starts to consider some well-known books : CLASSICS
10-across – After work, seller is to escape getting involved : OPTOUT
12-across – Source of inspiration in lecture, having switched sides : ERATO
13-across – Bishop in staggering movement, hero in act of defiance : REBELLION
14-across – Book to excite man into tales : LAMENTATIONS
18-across – Scot and Austrian working together in a branch of science : ASTRONAUTICS
21-across – Added time had arisen after injury : ADARSHENI
23-across – Island thus seen looking west from Roman harbour : OSTIA
24-across – Interrupts with instruction to reduce wickedness : CUTSIN
25-across – Mars — a visit : VITIATES
26-across – City’s place of vice, always hiding its face : DENVER
27-across – Physicist showing anxiety with short memory : ANGSTROM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Prime minister on television, one seeking to steal information : HACKER
2-down – Emperor’s function to keep rule in India : TRAJAN
3-down – Sugar upset tot before Virginia tucked into fish and duck : MUSCOVADO
4-down – Put away in vehicle, packed in box: drug smuggled in : INCARCERATED
6-down – Black stuff with core of soft or hard material : COPAL
7-down – Them old books? I study something on the computer! : EMOTICON
8-down – A bit like part of Birmingham, creating surprise? : ASTONISH
11-down – Treat bionics unconventionally as medical specialist : OBSTETRICIAN
15-down – Note penned by investigators for geological study : TECTONICS
16-down – Weapon housed in rotten stable : BALANCED
17-down – Distress of nurse once, characteristic concealed : STRAITEN
19-down – Country with rupee coin : STATER
20-down – Carriage provided when Dane, maybe, is given honour : HANSOM
22-down – Criticise bargain with Europe, finally : SNIPE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.