This crossword No. 28439 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 May 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28439 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Excited cry from oaf : YAHOO
10-across – I go off pastry sent around by a restaurant : TRATTORIA
11-across – Herbivore long ago sorted out grasses, mostly : STEGOSAUR
12-across – Officers soundly managed area of woodland : COPSE
13-across – Visionary returns from hearing : PROPHET
15-across – Shows emotion and is destructive? Doesn’t sound like it : TEARSUP
17-across – Despotic leader installed without a break : PUTIN
18-across – Role in Henry V sounds like something anyone could play : NYM
20-across – Ruse that helps player secure contract : TRICK
22-across – See 3 : SAPIENS
25-across – Help with 24, a couple of 3 23 : SUCCOUR
26-across – Audibly, complaint increased in volume : GROWN
27-across – Legal agreements for shrinks : CONTRACTS
30-across – Problem for driver scrambling to reverse : OVERSTEER
31-across – Kind of love that’s very open, like 8 and 15 exemplifying 3 7 : AGAPE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – One or more positive responses viewers stated : AYES
2-down – Forcibly removed — it’s all over, one might say : THREWOUT
3-down – Term implying wisdom that’s peculiarly man’s? I hope so : HOMO
4-down – Put under financial pressure, stop being crooked, we hear : STRAITEN
5-down – Sign of something extra, or amount of gold, announced as incentive : CARROT
6-down – Being governed by chance upset constituents of a Scottish Conservative : STOCHASTIC
7-down – Plots to use G sharp in new composition : GRAPHS
8-down – China’s tea with pronounced difference : MATE
13-down – Diarist has a furtive look, reportedly : PEPYS
14-down – Letters he has put in post to North and South? It’s left, if not right : HANDEDNESS
16-down – Fire controller for game : POKER
19-down – Male is awfully randy, resulting in this? : MISANDRY
21-down – Mocking boy, one I expelled, that’s heavily protected : IRONCLAD
23-down – In triumph, one smashes cells, perhaps : PHONES
24-down – Shoot, with 26, a pair of 3 23 : SUCKER
26-down – Closing gap, don’t stop thug : GOON
28-down – As example of 3 18, raise back part … : REAR
29-down – … or put an end to movement out of control : SLEW
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.