This crossword No. 27889 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Aug 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27889 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Maybe patches up Oxford’s medieval road surface? : COBBLES
5-across – Women’s work in underground river in Wales : DISTAFF
9-across – Holy group? Such may be looking to the skies : PILOT
10-across – Unhappy lord outside Parliament finally gives indication of imminent departure : BLUEPETER
11-across – One’s snapped after being asked to do this : WATCHTHEBIRDIE
13-across – English team facing shoot-out ultimately making this? : EXIT
14-across – One skilled in words banishing guilt and sin : LINGUIST
17-across – Attempts to restrict naughty lesbians : TRIBADES
18-across – Not all of you serve an exploitative type : USER
21-across – Dependent on a number of elements!!! … : MULTIFACTORIAL
23-across – Time’s against jockeys making gallops : TANTIVIES
24-across – Tricks of one who proved Fermat’s last theorem : WILES
25-across – Fashion again using nasty polyester, not half poor : RESTYLE
26-across – Mark gets caught, snitch in school : SCRATCH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Headgear for big characters : CAPS
2-down – Holiday region may be conjured up in … in a seabird’s call : BALEARICISLANDS
3-down – Unsophisticated, seeing unexpected creature turning up in lake : LOTECH
4-down – Special unit hides computer program in footwear! : SABOTS
5-down – Answer to waterworks problem? I’d cure it, possibly : DIURETIC
6-down – Little boxes? : SAPLINGS
7-down – Ruddy good place for writer to produce a detective story? : ASTUDYINSCARLET
8-down – Penalty on account of bad ref I oft rue : FORFEITURE
12-down – Freakish mare, the pet that has seven feet : HEPTAMETER
15-down – Ease of provision : FACILITY
16-down – Buy a biography? Do something more interesting! : GETALIFE
19-down – ‘Hang around, girl!’, we say, in period of inactivity : STASIS
20-down – Gardener’s feature in September to April months in Welsh location : GROWER
22-down – Queen, but not our Queen, is someone of original Finnish stock : ESTH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.