This crossword No. 27080 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Dec 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27080 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – TS Eliot’s timeless Gnostic, quixotic sect member : SCIENTOLOGIST
10-across – A case of what should properly be used to cover a floor : CARPETBAG
11-across – Field of European football team not banner-free? : REALM
12-across – Evacuation: one leaves before last of Tory Opposition : ENEMY
13-across – Find oneself getting round Aintree : ORIENTATE
14-across – Allowance: Southend, given space, takes hint : STIPEND
16-across – Gruesomely large openings on total wreck of part of larynx : GLOTTAL
18-across – British sort of insult: Camp outfit! : BUTLINS
20-across – Cordial poured over hot body support : CHASSIS
21-across – Not one initial interaction with USA, which went down controversially : LUSITANIA
23-across – Ray: gather name’s changed to Miles : GLEAM
24-across – Stockhausen wasn’t a heavyweight — a Lambert! : TONAL
25-across – Tip over mock seaweed : CARRAGEEN
26-across – Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no : PSYCHOANALYST
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Not first winter transfer taken by Price, the player : CORNETIST
3-down – Reflective lines of energy on stage yard : ELEGY
4-down – Rag label cover protecting ring : TABLOID
5-down – Trailing insulation : LAGGING
6-down – Radius covered by diagonal shaped candleholder : GIRANDOLA
7-down – Indian songbird — medicine man removes tail : SHAMA
8-down – A drug-taking bicyclist is transforming ease of comprehension : ACCESSIBILITY
9-down – Decorating audacious men libels them : EMBELLISHMENT
15-down – English politics constituted of letters : EPISTOLIC
17-down – Ease up as a master sommelier? That’s rude : TASTELESS
19-down – Plant used science to change carbon to oxygen : SENECIO
20-down – Charing Cross? Exasperation! : CHAGRIN
22-down – Star lives over a narrow cavity : SINUS
23-down – Greek pain container of legend : GRAIL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.