This crossword No. 27296 clues and answers were published on Thu 07 Sep 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27296 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Charlotte’s content to hold Australian’s hand : APPLAUSE
9-across – The sort of band Jones : ONEMAN
10-across – Location of paintings retrospective shows class : ETAT
11-across – Gardener, little chap, strangely sham with cap of red : TITCHMARSH
12-across – Police chief did this bad? : RANCID
14-across – A national song written about a curse : ANATHEMA
15-across – Who can’t broadcast with eye open? : ONWATCH
17-across – Routinely heard to use salsa in composition? : ASUSUAL
20-across – We’ve no Messiah — Handel’s beginning to adopt chicken diet : HEATHENS
22-across – See uniform, intercepting US composer leaving home, make waves : BECURL
23-across – How nice it can be with Aled being immodest! : INDELICATE
24-across – Take leaders from newsman in Classic knees-up : NICK
25-across – Barking movie star, smarter naked : LASSIE
26-across – Commonwealth leader shot — very good one! : TURNBULL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Like The Lark, put ad around shelter : UPATDAWN
2-down – Make mark on Brunning’s first collection : BLOT
3-down – Brahms and Liszt used to put people out : OUSTED
4-down – What’s produced at three regularly? Yes! : TEATRAY
5-down – How Date Nights finally dizzified blondes? : TOWHEADS
6-down – In what orchestras make, the pay varies — there’s no universal system of thought : METAPHYSIC
7-down – Film, the essence of J Williams: Amistad : IAMSAM
13-down – Suchet’s fancy, blending in variety of rare liqueur : CHARTREUSE
16-down – Edmund C Bentley, for instance mocked gently; Vivaldi, when cut, cut again : CLERIHEW
18-down – General passages written up inspired by Indian city? : AGRICOLA
19-down – Gnossiennes, part of which this ropemaker’s got into : ESPARTO
21-down – Camille Saint-Saëns, without Ms Callas, is, I suspect, typical of a European hothead : ETNEAN
22-down – Makes dim British listeners embrace the overture to Lohengrin : BLEARS
24-down – Bills writers run up in bars on vacation : NIBS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.