This crossword No. 28217 clues and answers were published on Thu 20 Aug 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28217 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Peacemaking position cut by a reactionary : PLACATORY
10-across – King takes courses, becoming great in English verse : KEATS
11-across – American’s vote for Eliot, initially, as literary prizewinner : YEATS
12-across – Namely repaid for collected food : SCAVENGED
13-across – Novel was read as boat goes out of port : SEAWARD
14-across – Fascinated by unfinished story all told : INTOTAL
17-across – Person who paints diameter and two lines in circle : RADII
19-across – Being regularly culled is important : BIG
20-across – Clear parking in front of drive : PURGE
21-across – Blocked piano moved with effort : PLUGGED
22-across – Part of educational foundation improperly agreed to alter mark : REGRADE
24-across – Use for microwave that woman put back before having meal : REHEATING
26-across – Guardian’s singular responsibility for grant : AWARD
28-across – Blockade, for instance, European is backing : SIEGE
29-across – They may be used by poets — 10 and 11, for example, or 1 and 6? : EYERHYMES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Run into agent that’s able to move supply : SPRY
2-down – Every year a chap turned up in country : PANAMA
3-down – A university put in new chairs, causing ill-feeling? : NAUSEATING
4-down – Went hunting like queen, perhaps, and thought about nothing : MOUSED
5-down – In revolutionary movement, discordant about Trotsky’s end : GYRATING
6-down – Place for flight, followed by English : SKYE
7-down – What’s fatal for many — not opening best medicine? : LAUGHTER
8-down – Exercised, being intermittently unsteady : USED
13-down – Band in performance that’s barely finished : STRIP
15-down – Happy Tory excited about good layout of text : TYPOGRAPHY
16-down – European city and province, say, in fiction : LIEGE
18-down – Part of issue the guard sorted : DAUGHTER
19-down – Journalist’s showing in British daily when people retire : BEDTIMES
22-down – Rough diamonds supporting hooligans’ game, mostly : RUGGED
23-down – Fears nearly all weapons : ALARMS
24-down – Flower got out of bed : ROSE
25-down – A part of dress that’s said to require attention : AHEM
27-down – Some medicine making us drowsier, oddly : DOSE
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.