This crossword No. 27781 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Mar 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27781 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Lakeside parking provided for stars … : PLOUGH
4-across – … a great one is fit to work : CANOPUS
9-across – Is it reasonable not to have a second pint? : RATIONALE
10-across – Busy, not initially having done very much : NOEND
11-across – Editor’s leader on the reason for reciting poem : ELEGY
12-across – Nobody but Spooner could give us the language of the wisecracker! : PIPSQUEAK
13-across – Social climber puts about the stuff of the aesthete : UPSTART
15-across – Country golf club admits women! : RWANDA
17-across – Cutter served in the US Army, 75% retired : JIGSAW
19-across – Flying team picked up crown prince, then bragged : AIRCREW
22-across – However, American’s the bluntest tool in the box? : LEASTWISE
24-across – Feelings about individual stay in power : VIBES
26-across – Stuart guy prone to make flamboyant bid? : YOUNG
27-across – By-product of burning food injected to power donkey : PEATSMOKE
28-across – See 18 : SNAPPER
29-across – Novice winked nervously at auction : NEWKID
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Nouveau riche location second to be struck off, substandard : PARVENU
2-down – See 29 : ONTHE
3-down – Tyres we want him to win, we hear : GOODYEARS
4-down – Slowly, stealthily I move here, peer coyly over walls : CREEPER
5-down – Initially, our series where you may question Vishy sacrificing a queen : NANDQ
6-down – See 26 : PRETENDER
7-down – Puzzling form on the upturn, United knocked us out : SUDOKU
8-down – Covering threes, when having a bet : CARPET
14-down – Page is upset about bloody count not opening vents : SPIRACULA
16-down – Top tip for real trivia nuts, including son heading for Eggheads — he’s aiming high : ARRIVISTE
18-down – Wife in a photograph with a young rascal : WHIPPER
19-down – Such as divides old man and young woman, endlessly arising : AGEGAP
20-down – Players’ practice over, hitched round London’s theatreland : WESTEND
21-down – List issuer, sly old crook : LLOYDS
23-down – Perhaps procured dress very smartly : TOGUP
25-down – See 29 : BLOCK
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.