This crossword No. 27508 clues and answers were published on Mon 14 May 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27508 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Tides swirling round end of bus stop : DESIST
4-across – Try to get friend into new art and old Marian hymn music : STABAT
9-across – Couple stealing gold from home helper : PAIR
10-across – Money given to fourth in line, say, for property : REALESTATE
11-across – Round clubs for the old man : CHUBBY
12-across – Let down by legal document about apartment : DEFLATED
13-across – Cruel and pointed remark by one born in late March? : BARBARIAN
15-across – Accommodation for archaeologists? : DIGS
16-across – Part of the Koran found in ancient city in Saudi Arabia : SURA
17-across – One travelling out to north Germany : PASSENGER
21-across – Itinerant magician’s prop turned King Edward into Queen Elizabeth! : WANDERER
22-across – Drink, one way and another, leads to disturbance : RUMPUS
24-across – Craftsman means to groom his boy : STONEMASON
25-across – Ass featured in ancient witchcraft : TWIT
26-across – River bird may be a record holder : DEEJAY
27-across – Soldiers leaving train for another kind of transport : HEARSE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Excitement about Switzerland’s old silver coin : DRACHMA
2-down – Cancel subscription to protect creditor : SCRUB
3-down – Streetwise leader’s entreaty to graffiti artist? : SPRAYER
5-down – Upper-class chap snorting drugs to get things going : TEEOFF
6-down – Taliban to become an army unit : BATTALION
7-down – Pre-rest, naughty child moves unsteadily : TOTTERS
8-down – Vehicles, one after another, carrying assistance, turned up to support a major medical emergency : CARDIACARREST
14-down – Damaged car banned in social event : BARNDANCE
16-down – Set up celebrity with young man from the fifties : STARTED
18-down – Sergeant abroad missing English rum : STRANGE
19-down – European charged outside America is difficult to catch : ELUSIVE
20-down – Atrocity committed on a field of battle? : CRIMEA
23-down – See 4 : MATER
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.