This crossword No. 27406 clues and answers were published on Mon 15 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27406 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Recurrent saying in busy pubs? : BOTTOMSUP
6-across – Oddly shunned, said piteous goodbye : ADIEU
9-across – Suffuse disrobed limbs with beginnings of unalloyed eroticism : IMBUE
10-across – Consummate marriage? Not so! : MATCHLESS
11-across – Accommodation and clothing denied to French revolutionary over time : PIEDATERRE
12-across – Filthy place ultimately became eyesore : STYE
14-across – Conveyance of gas round back of Number 10 : CHARIOT
15-across – Spooner’s fake history published on the internet : PODCAST
17-across – Port went off, in a manner of speaking : ANTWERP
19-across – Quietly handle extremely rare love potion : PHILTRE
20-across – Left-wingers in Italian towns campaigned hard and long : ITCH
22-across – Are responsible for Her Majesty meeting Blue Peter dog in private : PERPETRATE
25-across – Where Communists alone are elected to run neonatal facility : INCUBATOR
26-across – Drug finally injected into bare elbow : NUDGE
27-across – Decent sandwiches start to entice relative : NIECE
28-across – Depend on Jane name-dropping without ostentation : AUSTERELY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – First to burst flaccid balloon : BLIMP
2-down – Present for discussion on second key food additive : TABLESALT
3-down – Gracious Evita reportedly turned up to embrace workers : OPERATIVES
4-down – Collage of Matisse showing least variation : SAMIEST
5-down – A supporter of mine : PITPROP
6-down – Pain of brill swallowing tip of hook : ACHE
7-down – Sluggish ferrets regularly found beneath home : INERT
8-down – Draw peacekeepers’ fire with high explosive : UNSHEATHE
13-down – Maiden, with tact, ordered entree : ADMITTANCE
14-down – Alliance of nearly everybody in Congress : COALITION
16-down – Turn red, sat awkwardly on top with a leg on each side : ASTRADDLE
18-down – Criminal cartel headed by leader of pheasant pluckers : PLECTRA
19-down – Surreptitiously photograph your American manuscript : PAPYRUS
21-down – Memory of country singer on the radio : CACHE
23-down – Each is ruefully discontented after night before : EVERY
24-down – Old boyfriend said to be member of orchestra : OBOE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.