This crossword No. 27964 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Oct 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27964 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Players putting Irish broadcaster in a spot, according to some : QUARTET
5-across – Southern peninsula, a massive area : SIBERIA
9-across – Enthusiast gets to live, say, east of East Span River : EAGER
10-across – Obnoxious person was in the van, refusing to bend : PIGHEADED
11-across – Boxing Day fare that might be imposed on trippers? : COLDTURKEY
12-across – No socialiser should be left with a womaniser : LONE
14-across – Ceremonial dancing: it curtails stifling independence : RITUALISTIC
18-across – Nark about rifles and stuff, taking a long time : STOOLPIGEON
21-across – Industrious sorts in active communal working parties : BUSY
22-across – Reprobate Dolly pursues Sooty : BLACKSHEEP
25-across – In vacuous orgy, male smeared sun oil with menace : OMINOUSLY
26-across – Block an uncompleted foul : ANVIL
27-across – Antisemitic affair victim : DREYFUS
28-across – Beset by depression, make mistake of only half being a clown : PIERROT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Heartless monarch has church put out : QUENCH
2-down – Strange Lancastrian housing name : ANGELA
3-down – Act the soup-maker and keel over : TURNTURTLE
4-down – One who records spill : TAPER
5-down – Don’t join ‘Easter Egg’ movement : SEGREGATE
6-down – See 21 : BEES
7-down – Old soldiers flushed out a Scot : REDCOATS
8-down – Induce rehabilitation in hospital department for TV watchers? : AUDIENCE
13-down – Main part of the rugby team has moved on : LIONSSHARE
15-down – Indian river ignored by powerful businessmen who hope to become major players : TRIALISTS
16-down – Hair colour like Henry James, perhaps, cut by Latin? : ASHBLOND
17-down – An unhappy existence of stick-retrieval etc? : DOGSLIFE
19-down – See 9 : BEAVER
20-down – Cooker put on time program? : APPLET
23-down – Praise miniature railway in container : CRYUP
24-down – See 12 : WOLF
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.