This crossword No. 27138 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Mar 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27138 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – In part from ancestral court : ROMANCE
5-across – Lie about providing effervescent tonic : FICTION
9-across – Advocate of trade holding back title : BARRISTER
10-across – Focus of Detective Frost? : CRIME
11-across – Porky’s tip on the radio : TALE
12-across – R-rendition of Celtic air : RECTRICIAL
14-across – Revulsion of empty hangar filled with gold, ornate ring tops : HORROR
15-across – Conductor wants date put off : RATTLED
16-across – Use a needle to wind back bird film? : WESTERN
18-across – Notch almost circling rod, used in a certain style of walking : NORDIC
20-across – Universal misfit with loud mobile? : FILMSTUDIO
21-across – Broadcast not fair!: sweet, wrinkly thing : UGLI
24-across – Gallery not good for Christ’s sayings : LOGIA
25-across – Fancies cultivated US soil in Louisiana’s capital : ILLUSIONS
26-across – United, king and queen stamp about — bizarre : SURREAL
27-across – Moral sense against lost discipline : SCIENCE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Android’s radical with boron implant? : ROBOT
2-down – Look after extra large fruit : MORELLO
3-down – Rather bleak form of iron : NOIR
4-down – Go-getting internee, Pearl, tearing around the city : ENTREPRENEURIAL
5-down – Basics of brewing Pilsner : FIRSTPRINCIPLES
6-down – Account on agency model in essence is prepared Italian-style : CACCIATORE
7-down – First in Latin, almost, I swaggered : INITIAL
8-down – Wound up like a compass? : NEEDLED
13-down – Appeared to gobble, er, lush spread — such a pity! : CRUELSHAME
16-down – Pads out batter cakes : WAFFLES
17-down – Last leg, erecting housing for three-year-old event : STLEGER
19-down – Might describe toenail wax with local protection : INGROWN
22-down – Baby problem? : ISSUE
23-down – Like the Channel Islands, having cells for spores : ASCI
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.