This crossword No. 27888 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Aug 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27888 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Dating an old tennis champion’s cool : COURTSHIP
6-across – Neighbour displaying a 26 after sun comes out : ABUT
10-across – Accommodate going back and forth : PUTUP
11-across – Roman official for and against Muslim ruler having no function : PROCONSUL
12-across – Potentially the cause of most damage inside a restaurant : DEAREST
13-across – White male husband, regularly drunk : ALBUMEN
14-across – ‘X’ on map might show whereabouts of this diabolical theatre’s curse : TREASURECHEST
17-across – Live with a friend: British female one’s put up at the seaside : BEACHUMBRELLA
21-across – Around one hour in Paris? Sadly, it could fly by : AIRSHIP
22-across – Special quality that’s needed by female member of cast : XFACTOR
24-across – One holding 26 in small room shows some intellectual capability : BRAINCELL
25-across – Cut thread … half of which lost by hesitating? : THRUM
26-across – Journalist thrown by boy band not working : BUST
27-across – Withdraw from sun, with its required effect now lost on 26, largely : STANDDOWN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See way out of folly that’s greed : CUPIDITY
2-down – You sell feminist underwear, bottoms only, leading to end of bra? That’s radical : ULTRA
3-down – An obsession, perhaps, with something found on the French Riviera? : TOPLESSBATHING
4-down – Like some trousers to appear hot on high priest : HIPSTER
5-down – Experts backing spies’ routine : PROSAIC
7-down – A meal best canned in tin, say : BASEMETAL
8-down – Gift books coming under ‘Fiction’ : TALENT
9-down – Was unsure about European wearing the French underwear as outer garments sometimes : DOUBLEBREASTED
15-down – Show up with energy Mars Bars produced : EMBARRASS
16-down – Extremely large number upset by a new dealer in Cheddar? : DAIRYMAN
18-down – Unlucky, like chap that’s caught short : HAPLESS
19-down – Jaw about everyone before nine in the morning : MAXILLA
20-down – Bad smell around a wee stunted tree : BAOBAB
23-down – Roots supply trunk : TORSO
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.