This crossword No. 27829 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 May 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27829 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Without wasting words, show sympathy, capturing child’s heart : PITHILY
5-across – Revealed orgy of dope and sex : EXPOSED
9-across – Backing role, embracing male — one of slender means : TRAMP
10-across – Peculiar shapes securing fastener produce contentment : HAPPINESS
11-across – Squeal ‘Woo!’ in type of 20 : GRASSCOURT
12-across – More despondent, dropping drug in haze : BLUR
14-across – Stink horribly, trashing universal values : HUMANRIGHTS
18-across – Philosopher of language chewing over fish with booze : IRISMURDOCH
21-across – 10 in something to buy in 19 bar : AXLE
22-across – Speak at length about a short swim around and leave to decay : DILAPIDATE
25-across – Fruit of foul temper skewered? On the contrary : TANGERINE
26-across – Energy endlessly recycled would be so : GREEN
27-across – Bear eating gutted veggie in non-veggie establishment : CARVERY
28-across – Totally heartless diatribes from dictators : TYRANTS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Broth, say, over? Over : POTAGE
2-down – Drink producer’s sheep receiving a degree : TEABAG
3-down – Setter’s after Scottish thinker’s abscess : IMPOSTHUME
4-down – Cry of delight from vulgar sort : YAHOO
5-down – Fourth letter in Oscar Peterson’s made-up language : ESPERANTO
6-down – Annoyance caused by French bread : PAIN
7-down – Being furtive, make off with your old … : STEALTHY
8-down – … 6, first in costume : DISTRESS
13-down – Seek information with which to identify malefactor’s food item : FISHFINGER
15-down – Sickliness results in dim boy getting no points in resit : MORBIDITY
16-down – Performed deed in college, initially providing instruction : DIDACTIC
17-down – Popular novelist embraces headdress-maker : MILLINER
19-down – Pub where brown cleric gets round in : TAVERN
20-down – Keyboard instrument — no piano — raised in sport : TENNIS
23-down – Expert has a profundity that’s bottomless : ADEPT
24-down – Sheds uninherited characteristic? : MEME
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.