This crossword No. 28749 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 May 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28749 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Encourages recount — you might say ‘pardon’ : EXONERATE
10-across – Boatman’s one to advance as a paradigm : IMAGO
11-across – Perhaps fin or tail of whiting are broken at the end : ORGAN
12-across – Forsaken, nevertheless reportedly a looker : LORGNETTE
13-across – It’s been used to make sauce for aeons by fermentation : SOYBEAN
14-across – Inclines to take radical stances : ASCENTS
17-across – Time to take a different position in the issue of sight : OPTIC
19-across – Sliced mullet? : CUT
20-across – Go into chippy, if fish goes first : ENTER
21-across – Having fun in a boat going in to fish : LARKING
22-across – Bit of bread offered to newt, which Ken Livingstone liked : FARLEFT
24-across – On fishing for orca, I spy tuna’s snout — that’s fishy : PISCATORY
26-across – Julienne or fillet of fish re-dressed : SHRED
28-across – Tips of shark’s teeth: evil, edged like a sword : STEEL
29-across – Iran expel ill-treated guide : EXPLAINER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Warning about a little lost fish : NEMO
2-down – About little lost fish : ROUGHY
3-down – Sheerness embracing King and Crown with one last word : DERNIERCRI
4-down – Fish both ways in the sea : MARLIN
5-down – Place trap for fish around regions close to the Nile Delta? : NEAREAST
6-down – Even a smidgen of evidence : SIGN
7-down – Instrument with which to try to catch fish? : CASTANET
8-down – Cooked Dover sole : DONE
13-down – Many fish thus swallowing hard on a line : SHOAL
15-down – Beloved as earth to Spooner, that’s obvious : CLEARASDAY
16-down – Traps set for little fish : SPRAT
18-down – Made a mess of catching hammerhead, getting beaten : THRASHED
19-down – Familiar name for humble member of a large organisation : COGNOMEN
22-down – Little fish thoroughly sautéed — it’s first for gut-busting cuisine : FRYUPS
23-down – Fish missing an hour, going astray : ERRING
24-down – Old man eats fish guts in Italy : PISA
25-down – Boatman put one out skilfully : ABLY
27-down – Angler’s instrument brought up unknown quantity of fish : DORY
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.