This crossword No. 27255 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Jul 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27255 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – These people in set, facing rogue, avenged : THEMAGNIFICENT
8-across – See 1 : SEVEN
9-across – Admonishing slap here — ow! — for a change, I hypothesise : THEORIST
11-across – A very short distance to track one’s initial letter : OMICRON
12-across – Direction taken from A Man with Razor, cut around snout : TOBACCO
13-across – Strip left zilch to imagination : THONG
15-across – Year One singled out for concessions : YIELDINGS
17-across – Went back up tree, say, where children play with branches : RECLIMBED
20-across – Animal groups lecturer and academician meet at back of pub yard : PHYLA
21-across – Those held most dear live in a home : NEAREST
23-across – Dealing with discord in ranks? : ALIGNED
25-across – Plunge nervously taken together with TV show stopper : VENTPLUG
26-across – Equal chance of gibe : AFAIR
27-across – See 26 : CRACKOFTHEWHIP
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Analyst nails big time with a male product : TESTOSTERONE
2-down – … and they all lived happily ever after? : ENVOI
3-down – Having undergone changes one rang in 1954 for Queen Elizabeth the Third! : ANNOREGNI
4-down – Given bar tabs, you’ll craftily show : NOTONLY
5-down – Want means he left daughter destitute : FEELTHE
6-down – Zero sugar, say, coating chocolate substitute : CAROB
7-down – Coke tin framed by doyens off the wall : NOSECANDY
10-down – Outside ground depart to catch a noon carriage : HORSEANDTRAP
14-down – Annual scrambling race on fringes of course : ONCEAYEAR
16-down – Double up refashioning citadel walls : DUPLICATE
18-down – See 4 : BUTALSO
19-down – See 5 : DRAUGHT
22-down – Blade that struggles to cut edges : ESTOC
24-down – Poet’s unworthy of town in South Wales : NEATH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.