This crossword No. 29018 clues and answers were published on Wed 15 Mar 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29018 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Immediately suggestive of boater going down? : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
9-across – Fail in attempt to maintain break? : GOTOPOT
10-across – Be enough for holding popular strike : RUNINTO
11-across – Certain to miss holiday handout on island : LEI
12-across – Energy discharging around wharf, making a racket : EARPIERCING
13-across – Bland caper occurring around start of month : ANTISEPTIC
15-across – A lot of cane turned into a cot : CRIB
18-across – Eat out: get Chinese : ETCH
20-across – Significant eccentricity observed in bloke in Gulf working : MEANINGFUL
23-across – Informal market offering mostly crap, perhaps: footwear, booze : CARBOOTSALE
25-across – Live backing group appearing in later audition — an historic time : ERA
26-across – Soprano wrong to interrupt French king and composer : ROSSINI
27-across – Unruly Second Sex recalled in French fantasy? : RESTIVE
28-across – Off-colour article repeatedly found amongst lingerie? : UNDERTHEWEATHER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Pin-up about to tuck into a lot of raw food : ANGELCAKE
2-down – Old left-winger is in grip of drink after upholding the very thing : TITOIST
3-down – Crowd in rear of brasserie getting very good coffee : ESPRESSO
4-down – I will avoid disturbance, or location of revolution : ROTOR
5-down – I follow it through first bit, but not the last section : PARTITION
6-down – Good things to be put on penalty lines : FINERY
7-down – More convenient, that is, with Chinese doctor coming round : HANDIER
8-down – Skimpy swimsuit: object I discarded in favour of nothing : THONG
14-down – Priest upset with Welsh occupying church in Mancunian town : PRESTWICH
16-down – Singer, a large guy, tucking into booze : BALLADEER
17-down – Submarine dunes are dispersed : UNDERSEA
19-down – Large body of French turned up, collapsed in laughter : CORPSED
21-down – Belgian? Flaw sees Belgium replaced by France : FLEMISH
22-down – One repeats surprised comment about dessert : COPIER
23-down – Chapter Four about the Durrells’ home? : CORFU
24-down – It delivers arrival that hurts! : ARROW
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.