This crossword No. 28228 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Sep 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28228 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Small show of joy perhaps, after rent reduction : TEARDROP
9-across – No 1 from Adele, originally by Queen : LEADER
10-across – Strokes, the first of which produces 8s : SWEEPS
11-across – Can’t foul in the box, one might be feeling : TENTACLE
12-across – A little child is half-price fare : DISH
13-across – Football team’s about to struggle with questions after final whistle? : INTERVIEWS
15-across – Duel? Pot shot happened just before! : LEDUPTO
16-across – Best work is before setter’s filled stomach : OPTIMUM
18-across – Tabloid outing 9? Pretty inappropriate : UNBECOMING
19-across – Trek round with openers from Middlesex, promptly after close of play : YOMP
20-across – Got into bed with a novel : OBTAINED
22-across – Those drying Sierra winds? : AIRERS
23-across – ‘Aha!’, said solver, ‘A stinker!’ : EUREKA
24-across – Delicate six-footer in league champion side : LACEWING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Standard of wine drunk with journalist, eating a new sort of cheese : REDWHITEANDBLUE
2-down – Sees enough and rages about cause of climate change? : GREENHOUSEGASES
3-down – Experts to include one into chopped ham : PROSCIUTTO
4-down – Flying past in pick-up truck, towards Albany from New York? : UPSTATE
5-down – Scottish group just started live set in prison : CLAN
6-down – Limit on skill shown by ex-PM as a gardener : CAPABILITYBROWN
7-down – Chicken sandwich, US style? That’ll get one animated : YELLOWSUBMARINE
14-down – Bad pun initially causes extreme anger or disgust : REPUGNANCE
17-down – Complaint, as Charlie Parker hurriedly withdrew broadcast : BIRDFLU
21-down – Shipbuilder dropping into Bath regularly : NOAH
This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.