This crossword No. 26883 clues and answers were published on Fri 13 May 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26883 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Newspaper’s exposed detectives in harem, wrong time for a drink : THESUNS
5-across – See 1 : OVERTHE
9-across – Let sound be heard : ALOUD
10-across – A kind of exit on cue : EXECUTION
11-across – With ultimate skill, collecting finished vehicle : HOVERCRAFT
12-across – Card players? : CLUB
14-across – Only women can be cruel at name-calling : NOMENCLATURE
18-across – Burrow returning yield to fill barrel for player : CASSETTEDECK
21-across – See 24 : ROOM
22-across – We hate having no backing nor covering etc : ANDWHATNOT
25-across – Start to crow, as very cautious bird : CASSOWARY
26-across – Not right to enter a property to steal a musical instrument : BUGLE
27-across – Accommodates forces : OBLIGES
28-across – See 1 : YARDARM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Tasteless tree-hugging endeavour : TRASHY
2-down – No case for gun to change : EVOLVE
3-down – Hush-hush when in bed? : UNDERCOVER
4-down – Shark cut : SHEAR
5-down – Honest kind of sandwich, top end, no crust, with coffee coming up : OPENFACED
6-down – Dance music featuring Australians? : EMUS
7-down – Pilot takes learner through air turn manoeuvre : TRIALRUN
8-down – Del Boy’s lead character and none other turned up dignified : ENNOBLED
13-down – Chat room for 10s : GASCHAMBER
15-down – Europeans seeing school head surrounded by pupils : ESTONIANS
16-down – Wind up opening old carriage clock on request in clockmaker’s shop : SCIROCCO
17-down – Assumption that when borders cease to exist, despot must fall : ESPOUSAL
19-down – It’s a mystery why one might read Hemingway : ENIGMA
20-down – Current master plan : STREAM
23-down – One’s said to live well in a sarcastic way : WRYLY
24-down – Part of Lord’s pavilion is essentially all for one newly-wed : LONG
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.