This crossword No. 27177 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Apr 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27177 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Unconvincing verdict on reorganisation : CONTRIVED
8-across – Western sultanate’s frailty, according to Hamlet : WOMAN
9-across – Like a great stylist Puritans love madly : PROUSTIAN
10-across – Baffle with incomplete limb : STUMP
12-across – Folk band turned into premier ethnographic exhibit, for starters : PEOPLE
13-across – A bird, dropping one animal, returned diving equipment : AQUALUNG
16-across – Philosopher placing article amid pieces of music : BARTHES
19-across – Snake’s exhausted, holding soldiers back : SERPENT
22-across – Disagree about American electrical apparatus : DIFFUSER
25-across – Promise to put piano on shelf : PLEDGE
27-across – Be useful to island engulfed by reflux of magma : AVAIL
28-across – Eels prove slippery and fail to rise : OVERSLEEP
29-across – Slow down born libertine : BRAKE
30-across – Important person’s documentation found in here : PRESIDENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Unrefined blades in church : COARSE
2-down – Set about 30 8 of 18 3? : STRUMPET
3-down – True vice half-destroyed, surprisingly, by its opposite : VIRTUE
4-down – Escape from 5, getting A & E confused : GETAWAY
5-down – Entrance friend eating golden treacle to begin with : PORTAL
6-down – Squirrel’s introduction to nut curtailed by fish : SALMON
11-down – Odoriferous plant secures second trick : RUSE
14-down – See 17 : USE
15-down – See 16 : GET
16-down – Be thrifty and move on time : BUD
17-down – Say no to iron getting turned into 11 : REF
18-down – Requiring little effort to be relaxed : EASY
20-down – Rule out piece of Chopin, say, covering his head : PRECLUDE
21-down – Virtuosic old city set in Spanish coast : BRAVURA
23-down – Upend fountain erected around the beginning of November : INVERT
24-down – Loud, dangerous and full of fun : FRISKY
25-down – District capital’s hospital : PARISH
26-down – Novelist about to infiltrate some DNA : GREENE
This crossword has in total 32 where 14 are across and 18 are down.