This crossword No. 27397 clues and answers were published on Thu 04 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27397 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A setter held back by someone flirting? A corker, perhaps : WINEMAKER
6-across – Day-old wrinkly, age-old character : YODA
8-across – Pray with private for new recruit : BEGINNER
9-across – Muncher of grass munching everything green : CALLOW
10-across – Day piercing scream almost turned sour : LEMONY
11-across – Private chamber I reserved to host first of ladies in extravagant fashion : LAVISHLY
12-across – Cunning plan — stain at the front is to be removed from shirt : SCHEME
15-across – Catch outstanding European leader’s ultimate revolutionary song : SERENADE
16-across – One promising to keep mum permanently in gin, drunk by the sound of it? : TRAPPIST
19-across – Hill bearing small fruit : DAMSON
21-across – Soldier in art museum, name Frank : MANTOMAN
22-across – Partner joining principal in company with a generous corporation : CHUBBY
24-across – Ruminant occupying hollow tree : PIGNUT
25-across – Redhead after drunken hack in bar, utterly unyielding : ROCKHARD
26-across – See 17 : ONES
27-across – Sharp instrument happens to nip hand : COMPASSES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 17 : WHERE
2-down – Foul word of prayer masked by babble : NOISOME
3-down – See 17 : MONEY
4-down – Silk, rather oddly, used for old gowns : KIRTLES
5-down – Grass around fielder picked up : RECOVERED
6-down – See 23 : YELTSIN
7-down – See 22 : DOODLEDOO
13-down – Motor race that’s cultivated : CARNATION
14-down – Imagine this crossword starts out as cryptic : ENIGMATIC
17-down – To demonstrate one’s sincerity, eat bread? : PUTONES
18-down – Paddy beat Republican shortly : TANTRUM
20-down – See 17 : MOUTHIS
22-down – Dawn’s sound party at which to sketch spaniels, might you say? : COCKA
23-down – I, Russian leader, ostensibly tipsy? : BORIS
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.