This crossword No. 28999 clues and answers were published on Tue 21 Feb 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28999 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Put together our clothes, prepared to sign up : JOINTHECOLOURS
9-across – Finally securing a little energy: that’s something : ATLEAST
10-across – See increases in slow slender creatures : LORISES
11-across – Alcohol? A tiny taste, about two months back : PIMMS
12-across – Gives mail out, based on a score : VIGESIMAL
13-across – Waiting for security pass, as Stalin’s nephew might have said? : UNCLEARED
14-across – Prime ministers given a flatbread : PITTA
15-across – A great deal expected soon in this : SIGHT
17-across – Result of overindulgence perhaps troubling, Pepys said : DYSPEPSIA
20-across – Simple song: could it be any louder? : ROUNDELAY
22-across – Competitive place a long time back : ARENA
23-across – Artistic style of boxer’s, with rapid movement around : REALISM
24-across – Whisper, about to go in to get clean : BREATHE
25-across – A peculiar match abandoned with reference to drugs : PHARMACEUTICAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Compiler in trousers: are you about to become intellectual? : JEANPAULSARTRE
2-down – Sort of faith I will take lots of tricks, diamonds mostly : ISLAMIC
3-down – Short-lived rain’s poured in many a time : TRANSIENT
4-down – Old legal right in French is superior : ESTOVER
5-down – Bound to make line break important in dictionary : OBLIGED
6-down – Master reacts offensively principally falling over rootstock : ORRIS
7-down – Stalks over the floor in a hurry, cutting friend short : RUSHMAT
8-down – Callas’s able somehow to retain musical sense with purest tone : ASCLEARASABELL
14-down – Stop admitting a latitude that’s commonly accepted : PREVALENT
16-down – One morbidly interested in death, say, remains in a stew : GOULASH
17-down – Tricky position, lying on front between two women : DILEMMA
18-down – Always in black, which is OK for a speaker : SAYABLE
19-down – One doesn’t believe it’s cold through the month, almost freezing! : SCEPTIC
21-down – Cyclist has her day in the lead, weather having improved : DRIER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.