This crossword No. 28042 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Jan 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28042 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Covert behaviour’s appropriate, though heartless : STEALTH
5-across – Bail due for revision in hearing : AUDIBLE
9-across – Bare minimum of instructional books — effectively treat as one : INTHEALTOGETHER
10-across – Gifts of pink and yellow roses to make up? : PEACE
11-across – See 10 : OFFERINGS
12-across – Reason address fails to start? One may be drunk : RATIONALE
14-across – Vestment about to be given extravagant lining : COTTA
15-across – Gathering clamour breaks record : CROWD
16-across – Powerful ray left sea bream floundering : LASERBEAM
18-across – Glimpses tenor in embrace of lovelorn soprano : SIGHTINGS
21-across – New acid revitalised battery : NICAD
22-across – A tyrannical male condemned food processor : ALIMENTARYCANAL
23-across – Showcase clothing in general : KITCHEN
24-across – See 23 : DRESSER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – There’s no end of unstable footwear : SLIPPER
2-down – Particularly reliable source of cash among sweetshop’s stock? : EXTRASTRONGMINT
3-down – Vassal’s superior, grand persona sent up in song : LIEGELORD
4-down – Below-zero greeting? : HELLO
5-down – Distance from a kid climbing headland : ALOOFNESS
6-down – Bleak start for Doctor Foster : DREAR
7-down – Like badly-synced dialogue offstage? : BEHINDTHESCENES
8-down – Set up a route regularly crossing one continent or two : EURASIA
13-down – Favourite leader’s lost weight where some US VIPs have gained stones : ARLINGTON
14-down – Extremely little basis for appalling narrative : CHRONICLE
15-down – Slavonic firms on fire : COSSACK
17-down – A rum old collection assembled bit by bit : MODULAR
19-down – Sufficient power to operate choppers : TEETH
20-down – Perceptive wife cleared out grate : SHRED
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.