This crossword No. 27480 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Apr 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27480 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Climax that’s close, if in posh hot pants : PHOTOFINISH
9-across – Maybe Irishman gathering lily in bower : CELLIST
10-across – Low walls queen knocked over in burial place : PYRAMID
11-across – Overseer of colony’s alarmed cry, breaking pager : BEEKEEPER
12-across – Not a sound president backing Arabian kingdom : SHEBA
13-across – Land bordering northern cove : GENT
14-across – Make impure drug, cutting what mature people pay : ADULTERATE
16-across – Misery, as loot gets left : SPOILSPORT
19-across – Current ebbing for a change : EDIT
21-across – Flowering shrub with flower changing hands : BROOM
22-across – Happen to find terrapins at sea : TRANSPIRE
24-across – Heroin imported by organised crime, a monstrous thing : CHIMERA
25-across – During onset of violence, agreed to be called up : INVOKED
26-across – Sell fruit outside of Dieppe for everyone : TOUTLEMONDE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – A boring dim person interested in being a scientist : PALAEONTOLOGIST
2-down – Suppose it’s round and long : OPINE
3-down – Love fish, eating best marine creature : OCTOPOD
4-down – Perhaps, like Napoleon, avoiding a risk : IMPERIL
5-down – Streams of people arriving like baby Moses? : INRUSHES
6-down – Working man’s marched like an emblem of his kind? : HAMMERANDSICKLE
7-down – What phsyio may use to kill yak making ascent : ICEBAG
8-down – Daughter admitted to knowing online programs : ADWARE
15-down – Female left male lover carrying a torch : FLAMBEAU
16-down – Caribbean tree in Cuba is developed : SABICU
17-down – Spooner’s to install curtain? It’s a potential danger : PITFALL
18-down – It could be Mailer’s approach to literature : REALISM
20-down – Tense and feeble, like the rural upper classes : TWEEDY
23-down – Number that’s square, like four or sixteen : SEVEN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.