This crossword No. 27157 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Mar 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27157 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Medic is compelled into humanitarian crisis : DROUGHT
8-across – Compulsion at the heart of junior doctor : SURGEON
9-across – Medical instrument for removal of fungus : CEPS
10-across – MOs to heal sick and sickening : LOATHSOME
12-across – Severe laceration seen in hospital department : ACUTE
13-across – American version of Doctor in the House? : RESIDENT
15-across – Pointless change causes irritation : ITCH
16-across – Put pressure on doctor : PLACE
17-across – Report of added numbers leading to deaths : MORT
18-across – Clue for part of hospital with a problem : DRAWBACK
20-across – Drop medical vehicle’s display : CALVE
21-across – Cosmetic specialist and doctor are in trouble : DECORATOR
22-across – It’s used to clean edges of surgeon’s instrument — Boatman closes it : SWAB
24-across – One might call doctor for blood type before injecting drug into sick person : BLEEPER
25-across – Hospital worker is disciplined : ORDERLY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 6 : TRUE
2-down – Charges published on hospital’s downward course : DUESOUTH
3-down – Drop reform of vehicles? Losing intensive care just the start : SHELVE
4-down – Way to cook potatoes required game inside : DUCHESSE
5-down – Having done time, gaoled anew : AGEOLD
6-down – Take place of doctor to cure me : COME
11-down – Mae West broadcast? Boatman is on time in New York : AIRJACKET
12-down – Doctor to find cure later : ALTER
14-down – Plastic surgeon needs letters to go out with hospital worker? : NURSE
16-down – Poetical colour of beautiful boat in seascape, agree narrators : PEAGREEN
17-down – Doctor gets the girls — that’s sweet : MOLASSES
19-down – Evil or sick? It’s all the same, if you’re young : WICKED
20-down – Treatment: to swallow radium : CURARE
21-down – Definitely uninteresting, lacking lustre on top : DULL
23-down – See 17 across : ALLY
This crossword has in total 30 where 15 are across and 15 are down.