This crossword No. 29778 clues and answers were published on Wed 20 Aug 2025 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29778 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – It’s impossible to manufacture a bird : FORGETIT
5-across – Latest fake ‘art’ may be seen here : LATTES
9-across – Removing bottom from lacy gown isn’t half irresponsible : NEGLIGENT
11-across – Bit of lightheartedness in western martial arts : TRALA
12-across – Squeezebox lost in a thousand pounds of Royal Albert Hall gear : CONCERTGRAND
15-across – Unexplained phenomena among retrograde moons of Uranus : UFOS
16-across – Bench-sitters shift buttocks : ALTERNATES
18-across – Former wife’s grip that’ll need painkiller : EXTRACTION
19-across – Went to neaten garden : WEED
21-across – One taking it to the edge fancifully guzzling rotten gin and a fifth of mulled wine? : BINGEDRINKER
24-across – Invitation word Don expressed? : WHERE
25-across – Deep-sea swimming,both directions,for sunken gem : SEEDPEARL
26-across – Rover was one sort of dog : SETTER
27-across – Top Android,say,goes after toxic element in hazardous material : ASBESTOS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Almost slice up rat : FINK
2-down – Joplin composition: a Bollywood soundtrack tune : RAGA
3-down – Tesla rival is done screwing around : EDISON
4-down – Photo edges cropped from crude close-up pictures of ephemeral art : ICESCULPTURES
6-down – Sophocles heroine in favour of sticking around? : ANTIGONE
7-down – Genteel affairs in which pirates ate bats : TEAPARTIES
8-down – Get out of way of bear chased by first-string team? : STANDASIDE
10-down – Wise monkeys count dogs in long baskets : THREEPOINTERS
13-down – Great Hooters contests,stateside : SUPERBOWLS
14-down – Able to contain it with internal force? It’s conditional : CONTINGENT
17-down – You can see Venus with this device externally held by eccentric Yankee : NAKEDEYE
20-down – Part of the head’s religious centre : TEMPLE
22-down – Lisa’s brother is a spoiled brat! : BART
23-down – Chains raised in child’s play : ALPS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.