This crossword No. 29032 clues and answers were published on Fri 31 Mar 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29032 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Complicated kind of relationship the Oval Office finally sorted out : LOVEHATE
9-across – Nothing in striking description that’s solid? : ALLOUT
10-across – Fly, perhaps, one swallowed by nocturnal insectivore : BAIT
11-across – 10 in river shortened with stick : INDUCEMENT
12-across – Show or conceal : SCREEN
14-across – Removing or securing piece of paper : CLIPPING
15-across – My son, crazy about Big Apple either way? It means the same : SYNONYM
17-across – This, of itself, is 15 : ANTONYM
20-across – The end of some extinct creatures shown in useful reference books : THESAURI
22-across – Provided with food taken back to consume — best or worst : DEFEAT
23-across – Prone to be standing up to with determination : FACINGDOWN
24-across – Common complaint about antique : COLD
25-across – Slander American woman, European female intervening : DEFAME
26-across – One that’s not part of 1, not so unusual : COMMONER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Month and year in which to take on one kind of state : MONARCHY
2-down – Intensity of feeling produced by race : HEAT
3-down – Guinea inferior to former French colony? That’s slander : MALIGN
4-down – Something needed before formulating sentence, found in whatever dictionary : VERDICT
5-down – Permit, or punitively deter, second name appearing in deed : SANCTION
6-down – Following explosion initially in light on ceiling, not flammable or inflammable : FLAMEPROOF
7-down – Get excited, start attack : TURNON
13-down – Self-absorbed — extra time in first half would make very little difference : EGOISTICAL
16-down – Between the two of us, locate no good new striplings : YOUNGMEN
18-down – Regular but infrequent publications from unknown, first abridged : YEARLIES
19-down – One of 16, more or less, in island : MINORCA
21-down – Rise and fall before noon? Hell, no : HEAVEN
22-down – Person who’s active in so many directions? Just the opposite : DYNAMO
24-down – Fashionable, but not hot : COOL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.