This crossword No. 27153 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Mar 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27153 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Sugar, perhaps, needing part, say, for complete payment : LUMPSUM
5-across – Gold, auric edges in pen containing a metalloid : BORACIC
9-across – Groups of bones in this ratio passed to the left : TARSI
10-across – Lower seams burst as tight on both sides of tanga : SUBSTRATA
11-across – Scot, a head welcoming lecturer in religious education : ABERDONIAN
12-across – Relish decline : DIP
14-across – David was his second outstanding challenge, I suspect : MICHELANGELO
18-across – Deliver position that’s autonomous : FREESTANDING
21-across – Weed in pool : POT
22-across – Wood given pen to outline role of someone directly involved : FIRSTPARTY
25-across – Downtrodden thing in the way, a solver : SCARPETTA
26-across – Capital given stick by artist : RABAT
27-across – Unseeing as a 25-letter alphabet, did you say? : EYELESS
28-across – Eventual consumer always touring state in Midwest America : ENDUSER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Possibly toxic sanction well short : LETHAL
2-down – Solver left a bit : MORSEL
3-down – Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat : SPINDLIEST
4-down – Solver, member of secret society : MASON
5-down – Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form : BOBTAILED
6-down – Piffle on a list : ROTA
7-down – Solver a shade upset about Paul, ultimately, as writer : CHANDLER
8-down – Best solver embodying Holmes, initially : CHAMPION
13-down – Eliciting a yawn perhaps as beginning to nod, rip undies off : UNINSPIRED
15-down – Last of money on account invested in reminder to put on his evacuated bloomers : HYACINTHS
16-down – It suggests I step on virgin snow : OFFPISTE
17-down – In general, violin required for solver : LESTRADE
19-down – Ending in ignorance, solver finds god in the dark : EREBUS
20-down – Conclusion of narrative in unfolding story, a world of possibilities? : OYSTER
23-down – Solver as pack member : SPADE
24-down – Copy walls in southern part of church : APSE
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.