This crossword No. 29187 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Sep 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29187 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Flipping anxious old monarch failing to provide items for scoffing fools? : DESSERTSERVICE
8-across – Say butter’s rejected, getting this instead? : MARGE
9-across – Reliable staff one’s hired to work in TV or film : SOUNDMAN
11-across – Opera company led by Latin American revolutionary : NABUCCO
12-across – Condemn point put in plain language : DECRYPT
13-across – Vacuous twerps without intelligence? : TWITS
15-across – As far as US leader’s concerned, getting invaded by Germany is ruled out : FORBIDDEN
17-across – eg McCartney, Boy George at first, and a member of Morrissey’s group? : SONGSMITH
20-across – Green vehicle reversing into rural settlement : TESLA
21-across – Called for managed fund to save mobile phone company pounds : NEEDFUL
23-across – Whence two gentlemen came and left to get sedative : VERONAL
25-across – Sweet soldier brought in kind of battery for defence : APOLOGIA
26-across – Blithe Spirit’s leading character back in the country : SYRIA
27-across – Novelist pens mad, inauthentic and pedestrian advice : GREENCROSSCODE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Making valueless nude? Monet is in Giverny framing it : DEMONETISING
2-down – Maybe Holly Hunter wants filling in sandwich : SHRUB
3-down – Train strike’s beginning, which creates worries : EXERCISES
4-down – Bosses regularly filling bigwig’s drink quickly : TOSSOFF
5-down – Country’s financial district gets universal love, almost : ECUADOR
6-down – Very brief rule of old Indian scripture : VEDIC
7-down – Said why tucking into crab dish could be a danger, in the main : CHARYBDIS
10-down – Fun for eg young Boris, having surprisingly low mental age : ETONWALLGAME
14-down – Banks perhaps following current news host : INNKEEPER
16-down – Terrible triteness has the capacity to fascinate : INTERESTS
18-down – Invalid thinking ‘I’m going to smoke last of tobacco up’ : ILLOGIC
19-down – Try lots of port and case of amontillado, guzzling gallons : HAVEAGO
22-down – River Seine’s banks not straight : FALSE
24-down – Refusal to accommodate crooked car dealer who breaks the law : NARCO
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.