This crossword No. 28885 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Oct 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28885 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Mother hosting police ball is upset? Just a bit : MODICUM
5-across – Approaching a road in roughly two seconds : TOWARDS
9-across – Who’s keen to play Partridge Queen? : GAMER
10-across – Casual member wants back pay : PARTTIMER
11-across – Slough has one trapped, progress hampered? : BOGGEDDOWN
12-across – See 6 : HEAD
14-across – Failure, for example, of NBC broadcast with astronaut : ABSTRACTNOUN
18-across – Harrowing neck torture : NERVERACKING
21-across – See 6 : HELD
22-across – Beach merging with delta may be cut off : DETACHABLE
25-across – Sea child’s most important problem? : MAINISSUE
26-across – Poet’s lower than ‘the man sadly emasculated’ : NEATH
27-across – Under arrest and looking haggard : PINCHED
28-across – Machine operator altered shift : TREADLE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Face Lincoln as a former leader : MUGABE
2-down – Mother, get on ruin! : DAMAGE
3-down – Hackneyed stuff by journalist with complaint — probably canned : CORNEDBEEF
4-down – Transport was miserable : MOPED
5-down – ‘Reversion’ cast and support : THROWBACK
6-down – Proudly accompanying the ambassador on a date, kept getting excited? : WITH
7-down – Drink downstairs? Nonsense, according to a shanty singer : RUMBELOW
8-down – Screeching of small missile : STRIDENT
13-down – Misspelt the Genoese name for an eastern monument : STONEHENGE
15-down – Crossed a playwright with a paper figure : TRAVERSED
16-down – East Hampton otherwise now known as famous : ONTHEMAP
17-down – That’s an awful lot of birdsong on island first : TRILLION
19-down – Ace management team on a ship : ABOARD
20-down – Nerdy expert element of Aztec hierarchy : TECHIE
23-down – Vigilant prince consort ditches bishop : ALERT
24-down – See 6 : HIGH
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.