This crossword No. 28251 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Sep 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28251 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Troublesome person with stick always set about music maker : REEDORGAN
10-across – Inventor showing regret when putting off engineers : MORSE
11-across – Something sweet to stick around lettuce : GLUCOSE
12-across – Without thinking, building home next to an East Anglian city : INANELY
13-across – Quail a bit when crossing lake : COLIN
14-across – Understand an old rocker with very little energy at first did nothing : VEGETATED
16-across – Yes, mama is upset with a child stupidly making bloomer : MICHAELMASDAISY
19-across – Surgery as answer to disease that in extremis takes time : CURETTAGE
21-across – Writer offering brill Old English : DEFOE
22-across – Someone terrible following game around in vehicle : MINIVAN
23-across – Number of fashion items in Mary Quant’s era : SIXTIES
24-across – Part of island in Caribbean captured by the French : LEWIS
25-across – First to collect rags, even when chucked? : SCAVENGER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Like a sort of play that could make critic go mad almost : TRAGICOMIC
2-down – Country inn with memorial outside it : REPUBLIC
3-down – Spiritual advice to Moses in warehouse : GODOWN
4-down – Heading north over line, I stare : OGLE
5-down – Where you’d presumably find hellish types with old cricketer under a shadow : INDISGRACE
6-down – Affected little devil wasn’t sincere : IMPACTED
7-down – Burning paintings maybe outside private room : ARDENT
8-down – Presidential candidate once sounded a bit wet : DEWY
14-down – Lass in evil misbehaving? : VILLAINESS
15-down – Plea from someone wet and helpless with a certain peck? : DRYMEASURE
17-down – Penultimate part of Shakespearean play is beginning to move into vigorous campaigning : ACTIVISM
18-down – Break with trendy element of festival entertainment : INFRINGE
20-down – Celebrity children, not one of them accepting the present : RENOWN
21-down – It’s right to check when there’s sign of something wrong inside : DEXTER
22-down – Start to make everybody walk : MALL
23-down – Biscuit containers the wrong way up : SNAP
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.