This crossword No. 27408 clues and answers were published on Wed 17 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27408 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Lend money to soldier for a sandwich : SUBMARINE
6-across – Biblical ruler has nothing for one’s spirit : SOUL
8-across – One who would put away other people : CANNIBAL
9-across – Reality truly overwhelms sex : VERITY
10-across – Stout from May to end of July : MIGHTY
11-across – Dramatic setting relies on rocks : ELSINORE
12-across – Deity’s oversize flag : OSIRIS
15-across – Rank insect after fabric : SERGEANT
16-across – Sleeper with composer’s visual aid? : SPYGLASS
19-across – Dot’s fitness class at free prep : PEPPER
21-across – Tolerate large, upwardly mobile, New York borough : BROOKLYN
22-across – In America it’s intended to stop partner expecting a series of games : RUBBER
24-across – Chicken’s cry that hurt : YELLOW
25-across – This exponent of spin may get fired : REVOLVER
26-across – Way to say what Boatman did? : ROAD
27-across – Old man, Greek tennis champ, holding supplement : GRANDADDY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Cavalryman advanced into ship at sea : SPAHI
2-down – Ale houses new chain: Senior Inn Member : BENCHER
3-down – It accommodates men in order to put muscle on the old governor : ABBEY
4-down – Breathes over large lens — turned cold? : ILLNESS
5-down – Spy, one right out of abandoned Verdi operas : EAVESDROP
6-down – Ecstasy ring expected to stock drug injector? : SYRINGE
7-down – Entire political party rests on English statement : UTTERANCE
13-down – Batman of Orpheus carelessly holding up sun god? : SUPERHERO
14-down – Dissolute Wally traded in heroin : SCALLYWAG
17-down – Looked up on the web: Move both ways, under direction : GOOGLED
18-down – Was a confessor given fresh air and drink? : SANGRIA
20-down – European leader, in lead, was bloody stoned! : PEBBLED
22-down – Went about reorganising, over deputy’s head : ROVED
23-down – Mere polluted with yttrium, a hard mineral : EMERY
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.