This crossword No. 27277 clues and answers were published on Wed 16 Aug 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27277 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Spitfire’s first fliers circling old planes : SMOOTHS
5-across – Illegal recording of John, mostly bent over in toilet : BOOTLEG
9-across – Flipping once more given food delay : DEFER
10-across – Drunk a lot in Love Me Tender : EMOTIONAL
11-across – Insists on giving vital supplies in church — payment invested in crosses : FORCEFEEDS
12-across – Headed over to independent store : DELI
14-across – Scheduling in Graceland tours : CALENDARING
18-across – Broke vow: recorded and jammed : OVERCROWDED
21-across – Bass: turn way down : BUST
22-across – Concerned with soldier, intellectual, from a group of soldiers : REGIMENTAL
25-across – Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina : LUMINANCE
26-across – Go off, that’s all right : SOUND
27-across – Those screaming as Presley gyrates : YELPERS
28-across – One thinks about lives one harms : MISUSER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Provided lift? No chance! : SODOFF
2-down – Kind of blue shoe : OXFORD
3-down – One struts around in terrible film? Rubbish : TURKEYCOCK
4-down – Material did rock for the audience : SUEDE
5-down – Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out : BROADENED
6-down – After passing, notice cycle right away : OBIT
7-down – Hang on! That is pants : LINGERIE
8-down – Row over golf: good golfer admits they don’t have balls : GELDINGS
13-down – Jailhouse workers struggle with habit : WARDRESSES
15-down – Unfinished business in toilet — how Elvis begins to die in smalls : LOOSEENDS
16-down – Drug ring — Yankee showing sign of overindulgence : POTBELLY
17-down – Worst hit: is second record turned over? : PESSIMAL
19-down – Plays with bodyguards protecting president : STRUMS
20-down – One moving smoothly back to Vegas appearing on top show : SLIDER
23-down – One left European Union — member which might help form motion? : ILEUM
24-down – King originally called for a bit of leg : KNEE
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.