This crossword No. 28638 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 Dec 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28638 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Powder room makes sleepyhead somehow appear dishevelled : LOOKAMESS
10-across – Essential sign in heart oddly ignored : INNER
11-across – Pound discovered in a bath robe : THROB
12-across – Helen and Ruth unclothed by champion of alternative medicine : ELEUTHERO
13-across – Turbulent river in Europe, as far as the Guardian is concerned : RIOTOUS
14-across – Clothes on fire? : BLAZERS
17-across – Live or die, that’s come out nicely : DWELL
19-across – A city in Tanganyika, doesn’t matter which : ANY
20-across – Portsmouth & Co : OSTIA
21-across – East German in mature comeback : RIPOSTE
22-across – Terribly quaint and ultimately obsolete : ANTIQUE
24-across – Is it best to have laid out a stall that’s disgusting? : LASTLAUGH
26-across – The hapless are to speak : ORATE
28-across – One’s art without frames, extremely versatile and daring : NERVE
29-across – Writer’s book contains clever mixed metaphors : TOMSHARPE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Boodle’s mark : BLOT
2-down – Nice day, on reflection, for correspondent : JOURNO
3-down – Brambles not right as an environment for raising wildlife and fools : BAMBOOZLES
4-down – Religious people gathering shells, essentially as ornaments : JEWELS
5-down – Group competently curbs rising disorder : ASSEMBLY
6-down – Being old, will droop : WILT
7-down – Dine out on little money? That’s vulgar : INDECENT
8-down – Working majority of 13 across or 3 : TRIO
13-down – Up or down detector : RADAR
15-down – Perhaps too bad a mark : APOSTROPHE
16-down – See 24 : SCAPE
18-down – Showing Europe’s upset about vote : EXPOSURE
19-down – Enough said, every now and then, on match : ADEQUATE
22-down – In the Mao revolution : ATHOME
23-down – Source of stone that is sought by hunters : QUARRY
24-down – No portrait of elaborate lap dances : LAND
25-down – They say thin is right : LIEN
27-down – Brew beer, only half jug : EWER
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.