This crossword No. 27213 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Jun 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27213 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Shires financed unfairly, put beyond the possibility of democratic participation : DISENFRANCHISE
8-across – Deputy officer in charge like Scottish chimney sweep : LOCUM
9-across – Rogue captured by person pulling up : BERATING
11-across – The baddy — not he who operated as market trader? : TROTTER
12-across – Little woman should keep home — pardon? : AMNESTY
13-across – Cold? It’s good to wear a hat : ALGID
15-across – Item of armour wasn’t disturbed, we hear : HEADPIECE
17-across – Heavenly pair work ship with two propellers : TWINSCREW
20-across – 12 — time held to be impracticable : NOTON
21-across – Delay with our lot trapped in shed : SUSPEND
23-across – Naturalist to attack feature of Genesis flood story, audibly : LAMARCK
25-across – Show home to fail as accommodation for pet : INDICATE
26-across – Africans only half loathe America : HAUSA
27-across – What the state sector is doing, providing residential areas : HOUSINGESTATES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Pretty girl, embracing one Latvian worker, is like an amateur : DILETTANTISH
2-down – Thus floor a perverted person : SICKO
3-down – Worms army chaps pulled up — poetic things : NEMATODES
4-down – What could make one brighter, with suffering finally gone? : REBIRTH
5-down – Grandma around one beginning to rest, very blissful state : NIRVANA
6-down – Flirt greeting the fashionistas! : HITON
7-down – Seen to be dotty, having whiff, getting old : SENESCENT
10-down – The thin form I have!, said lingerie model : MYLEENEKLASS
14-down – Lad is struggling with song that has rapid succession of notes : GLISSANDO
16-down – An Asian nurse in simple summer head covering : PANAMAHAT
18-down – Constituency boundaries will be — bloody harsh on Corbyn, ultimately? : REDRAWN
19-down – Fish in passage you and I must catch : WALLEYE
22-down – Wicked folk losing head and what they are capable of : EVILS
24-down – Head of state in defeat creating stir : ROUST
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.