This crossword No. 27264 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 Aug 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27264 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Country that informally gives boozer heart : AUSTRALIA
6-across – Advantage of top-cut grass : EDGE
8-across – Canadian resort artist : WHISTLER
9-across – Grey hat tipped or removed : SOMBRE
10-across – Cross, if Yorkshire holds become fixed : OSSIFY
11-across – Wasn’t the only entertainer to fashion hoods etc : COHOSTED
12-across – Key sporting event about to return : OPENER
15-across – Hacked email about eastern country’s US-style disease : LEUKEMIA
16-across – Breakdown is its own possible cure : ANALYSIS
19-across – Runners on this start to slow step : SLEDGE
21-across – Eat it and dancing is hit : ATTAINED
22-across – Fold back electronic snail mail reply facilitator : CREASE
24-across – Miss relief — in pieces : MAIDEN
25-across – Act without control and don’t spare a tear : LETITRIP
26-across – Put up with no bull! : BEAR
27-across – So astronauts may be bound to get tense, being overwhelmed by hardware malfunction : EARTHWARD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Result of one who was fired up for a sporting contest? : ASHES
2-down – Rows over press-ganging school’s head for assembly : SESSION
3-down – Broadcast put back : RELAY
4-down – Year One, being involved in Latin: state poetic : LYRICAL
5-down – Orchestrated UN’s clash with second German political union : ANSCHLUSS
6-down – Sense a change, taking millions all together : ENMASSE
7-down – Digging group entertaining fancy diner? : GARDENING
13-down – Pointedly edit written work? : PUNCTUATE
14-down – Figures on ancestral houses echoing quality : RESONANCE
17-down – Character who drowned, one grabbed by shark possibly : LEANDER
18-down – Senior, quaintly rotten inside, whose clients put something on the horses : SADDLER
20-down – Vengeful character taking pick to Egyptian god : ELECTRA
22-down – Round hook? : CATCH
23-down – Dies in distress — Kay intervenes — sent heavenward : SKIED
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.