This crossword No. 27181 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Apr 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27181 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Lovebirds catching one painful inflammation : OTITIS
5-across – Lack of talent excluding a privileged group : NOBILITY
9-across – Swimming seal, then, is somewhere in the Atlantic : STHELENA
10-across – Stream with no ebbing wave : BECKON
11-across – Extremists ejected from industrial action in the capital : OSLO
12-across – Slimmer’s cheese in regional contest : LOCALDERBY
13-across – A French African free from ropes : UNMOOR
14-across – Guardian’s to hold back, holding back : DEFENDER
16-across – What might appeal to cannibal or neoliberal : FRIEDMAN
19-across – Shady borders of lime, in which I’m suffering : LOUCHE
21-across – Not charging, in a position like York’s welcoming hotel : ONTHEHOUSE
23-across – On-screen feature suggesting that Apple’s ripping you off? : ICON
24-across – Frosted desserts, the second sent back : ICEDUP
25-across – Work accepted by Poirot: a robbery with a twist : ORATORIO
26-across – Butcher’s cut and run, nursing case of lumbago : ESCALOPE
27-across – Silver service’s passed round for youth : NONAGE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Unartistic sound engineering a bloody tragedy! : TITUSANDRONICUS
3-down – Unevenness in pitch? English right back has second look : TREMOLO
4-down – One’s beaten horse, stifling liberal spirit : STEELDRUM
5-down – Subtle introduction to Nietzsche foxed a dunce : NUANCED
6-down – President engaged in vacuously boastful clamour : BABEL
7-down – Chosen to strip off, servicemen stand before the faithful : LECTERN
8-down – In London district, foreign cash goes on drug providing a fix : TROUBLESHOOTING
15-down – Lands a few blows in a deceptively promising period : FALSEDAWN
17-down – Insectivore concealed in cane abroad : ECHIDNA
18-down – Nobody imprisons half a continent in cell : NEURONE
20-down – College study, including reading, is a fabulous thing : UNICORN
22-down – Beast one very quietly smuggled into house : HIPPO
This crossword has in total 28 where 16 are across and 12 are down.