This crossword No. 27400 clues and answers were published on Mon 08 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27400 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Animal in a shopping centre turned round : LLAMA
10-across – Without preparation, extreme confusion surrounds Post Office : EXTEMPORE
11-across – Protection used before the French strike fundamentalist part of America : BIBLEBELT
12-across – Relative enters sleepy land with person of no fixed abode : NOMAD
13-across – Polish punishments extremely severe! : FINESSE
15-across – Made box containing Europe’s last old penny : CREATED
17-across – Loosely state preference : TASTE
18-across – Returned rotten fish : DAB
20-across – Area of swamp drained by expert : SPACE
22-across – Beans, maybe, grown from sticky stuff found in sediment : LEGUMES
25-across – Spouse in hospital visited by American musicians : HUSBAND
26-across – Spot tail of largish New World mammal : SLOTH
27-across – Satisfactory secondary school getting Ofsted’s fifth X at beginning of term : COMPETENT
30-across – Popular report’s shocking treatment for great thinker : INTELLECT
31-across – Celebrity holding middle of musical instrument : SITAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Float up and down round large shapeless mass : BLOB
2-down – A new boss upset surgeon : SAWBONES
3-down – Listened to chief with long hair : MANE
4-down – Clergyman is always upset by RIP : REVEREND
5-down – Still using second strategy, not Conservative : STATIC
6-down – Scribe has last word about a new university attended by relative : AMANUENSIS
7-down – In favour of rug design : FORMAT
8-down – Bow out of second-rate finale : BEND
13-down – Lard deal : FATAL
14-down – Spanish and English troops heard cry by very large swimmer : SPERMWHALE
16-down – First part of Dan Dare broadcast causing terror : DREAD
19-down – Huge creature found in shell of bizarre male insect? : BEHEMOTH
21-down – A tipsy mate restricting Rex to Italian liqueur : AMARETTO
23-down – Animals eating farmer’s last cereal product : GROATS
24-down – Private clubs hidden in trees, oddly : SECRET
26-down – Lose balance, upsetting lager : SLIP
28-down – Lexicographer seeking to preserve minority language : ERSE
29-down – Black stuff found on top of Turkish dessert : TART
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.