This crossword No. 28112 clues and answers were published on Mon 20 Apr 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28112 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – One may go up in a few ticks : TIMEBOMB
5-across – Alluring, one’s castle : GLAMIS
9-across – Plain, nothing to excite cockney : NOFRILLS
10-across – Sort of chest that may be scraped : BARREL
12-across – Order thesaurus in online form? : EDICT
13-across – Relatives reform, being adaptable : VERSATILE
14-across – British legislating blasted for its bad language : BILLINGSGATE
18-across – Staying in bed, say, a great honour for a body : LYINGINSTATE
21-across – The Commonwealth: it could hardly be more distant from Britain : AUSTRALIA
23-across – Refuse left by dyke builder : OFFAL
24-across – Giving a signal to be lining up for hearing : CUEING
25-across – Officer rank needed to win a seat? : MAJORITY
26-across – Getting to the end of this exhausts one’s patience : TETHER
27-across – Flag when monarch’s aboard ship : STREAMER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sensitive to pain in small boat : TENDER
2-down – Almost making a mess of cake : MUFFIN
3-down – Looking offended, finding bit of toenail in small fish : BRISTLING
4-down – Man forcefully expelling one with ill will : MALEVOLENTLY
6-down – Some small Amazonian animal : LLAMA
7-down – Alarming to be treated as almost irrelevant : MARGINAL
8-down – Served in the army? Not one joined : SOLDERED
11-down – Dancing, a girl hadn’t to lose all momentum : GRINDTOAHALT
15-down – Italian speaking in a whisper : SOTTOVOCE
16-down – Respectably neat, is one less likely to be infected? : CLEANCUT
17-down – Teacher locked up, being wasted : MISSPENT
19-down – Assert a company must employ female : AFFIRM
20-down – One taking piano course? : PLAYER
22-down – What storms do, circling northern mountains : RANGE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.