This crossword No. 27451 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Mar 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27451 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Socialist supporter securing a British isle : FABIAN
4-across – Good person keeps longing for container : SACHET
9-across – Landlady’s army : HOST
10-across – Mineral cup — one dropped by academic before end of ceremony : CHALCEDONY
11-across – Look hard, taking in 5, and go hungry : STARVE
12-across – Drug arrest in dog Latin? : CANNABIS
13-across – Litigant’s unsophisticated argument : PLAINTIFF
15-across – Plant nothing in drink : ALOE
16-across – Reliable sort of music : ROCK
17-across – Mark with sorrow, keeping Catholic back from crop protector : SCARECROW
21-across – Church painter, perhaps, or reformer : CHARTIST
22-across – Have words with motorist of sorts, catching cold : BICKER
24-across – Stupid stories about journalist’s headmaster : DUMBLEDORE
25-across – Capital of 15, mostly, getting turban adjusted : ULAN
26-across – Things discharged from cortege, startlingly : EGESTA
27-across – Sound of instrument gives sign : SYMBOL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Concerning anterior part of flat iron dropping one off : FRONTAL
2-down – See 25 : BATOR
3-down – Old emmet’s nice mess absorbed : ANCIENT
5-down – A headless whale keeping a number of secrets : ARCANA
6-down – Chair duly arranged to be driven by liquid : HYDRAULIC
7-down – Part of roof covering spaces that may be stretched : TENSILE
8-down – Hardening Muslim leader receiving 100 — one hundred — a hundred divided by one : CALCIFICATION
14-down – Cop for fit that’s beyond remedy : INCURABLE
16-down – Find new home for ambassador held up by wake : REHOUSE
18-down – Tough composer endlessly set in stone : RUBBERY
19-down – Supreme general : OVERALL
20-down – Strip joints given time : DIVEST
23-down – Drink, in the old days, uplifted cartoonist : CRUMB
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.