This crossword No. 28755 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 May 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28755 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Order solicitor to go and fight : SHOOTOUT
9-across – Get to give a sermon, not quietly : REACH
10-across – Fair, say, I shall be heard : ISLE
11-across – Old craft may be long hidden : GOLDENHIND
12-across – See 22 : PIECES
14-across – See 22 : OFSILVER
16-across – Plan yet to be devised for England, not a happy one before 8 : PENALTY
18-across – Evacuate old island in the Mediterranean : EXCRETE
21-across – They learn to start dangerous exercises in tricky performances : STUDENTS
23-across – Preserved a paper dress : CAFTAN
24-across – Instrument carried in this larger one as a precaution : VIOLINCASE
26-across – Top archbishop, extremely sexy when defrocked : APEX
27-across – Adjustment for Heathrow’s terminal during take-off : TWEAK
28-across – Yeats composed ‘Plead for a Piece of Cake’ : EASYTASK
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – What’s coming up on the first of September in nouveau riche county? : CHESHIRE
2-down – Get real lament chasing traveller in space : COME
3-down – Dogs for my soldiers : CORGIS
4-down – Pole working to make dairy product : STILTON
5-down – See 2 : TRUE
6-down – Graduate musician with role reversal, so upset about wind : BACHELOROF
7-down – Missing golf, whine and moan : WHINGE
13-down – Light rice pudding inspires composer : CHANDELIER
15-down – Church officer making love to woman, finally : SEX
17-down – See 15 : TON
19-down – Cross party set up as extremists ignored lines : TRAVERSE
20-down – Humiliated by a bogus journalist : ASHAMED
22-down – Price of evil shyster? It may be : THIRTY
23-down – 1 or 4 said to produce a smile : CHEESE
25-down – Heading north in seeking victory? : NIKE
26-down – See 6 : ARTS
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.