This crossword No. 27414 clues and answers were published on Wed 24 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27414 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Check those printing religious tracts? : REPRESS
5-across – Beaten revolutionary featured in flyer : BIRCHED
9-across – How sugar can be used, if at all? : FORTOFFEE
10-across – Chest protected by father’s waterproof : PARKA
11-across – Brought books back on approval : TOOK
12-across – Perseveres and catches a little bird : STICKSATIT
14-across – Gulf national sounding full of cold : QATARI
15-across – Brexiteers asking for this defeat on polling day : OUTVOTE
16-across – Bear from America digging into soil : SUSTAIN
18-across – Most utter support after turning up : PUREST
20-across – Bloke gets the way things are done in small part of Cornwall : BODMINMOOR
21-across – See 3 : CROP
24-across – Each individually at an advantage : AHEAD
25-across – Sum up chapter cut from historic volume one’s penned : EPITOMISE
26-across – Speeds up in speech, as ten strikes : HASTENS
27-across – Oriental crane ultimately like seabird : EASTERN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Update troops before attack : REFIT
2-down – An account traveller set, up providing support for climbers : PERGOLA
3-down – Liberal prone to adopting Conservative hairstyle : ETON
4-down – Crowd security? : SAFETYINNUMBERS
5-down – Case based on word of chap, or chaps, before I’m involved : BREACHOFPROMISE
6-down – Treasury theatre put on old romance with current investment : REPOSITORY
7-down – His friend has Hamlet’s first speech abridged : HORATIO
8-down – Doctor gets a payment covering time he has to serve in US : DRAFTEE
13-down – Tense liar added ridiculous nonsense : TARADIDDLE
16-down – Rebellious graduates wash thoroughly one day a week : SABBATH
17-down – Injured Danes coming aboard in gloom : SADNESS
19-down – Abject drunk lives without ever losing heart : SERVILE
22-down – What diver may do with bill, on cutting pound : PREEN
23-down – Employment from IT entrepreneur? : JOBS
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.