This crossword No. 28381 clues and answers were published on Mon 01 Mar 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28381 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Crafty animal getting last of food : SHREWD
4-across – Optical illusion created by image moving over river : MIRAGE
9-across – Something used by students to study in bed : CRIB
10-across – Silly me! Heroin taken during voyages in military vessels once : TROOPSHIPS
11-across – Cake that’s special gone off : SPONGE
12-across – Vocalist entertaining a Latin author : SALINGER
13-across – Part of year depicted in end of sonnet by old poet : TRIMESTER
15-across – Goddess heard in place to stable horses : MEWS
16-across – Course provided by alternative practitioner leaving base close to Oslo : PATH
17-across – Last warning about women close to retirement getting money for the future : ENDOWMENT
21-across – Patent obtained by a patient’s first carer? : APPARENT
22-across – Attempt to keep one pound in hat : TRILBY
24-across – Relative taking extremely tender stable hand to a safe place : STRONGROOM
25-across – Source of chef’s cooking fat causing wind : COIL
26-across – Former partner playing tune in order to leave the stage : EXEUNT
27-across – One with obsessive interest in the origin of Arabia translated Koran : ANORAK
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Fight about retro tool : SCRAPER
2-down – Bird runs over waste receptacle : ROBIN
3-down – Twins wrong to take drugs to one appearing in court : WITNESS
5-down – Naughty child meeting a large American animal : IMPALA
6-down – Articles on European Union kept by fellow returning to old seat of learning : ATHENAEUM
7-down – Fast train meant primarily for Luxembourg’s third head of state : EMPRESS
8-down – Unease caused by Conservative standing in for magnificent leader in enormous country : CONSTERNATION
14-down – Cops tricked individual supplying class A drug : METHADONE
16-down – Tube for liquid in mine covering domestic source of electricity : PIPETTE
18-down – Tomato spilt on new silken fabric : OTTOMAN
19-down – Toff beat old club on the golf course : NIBLICK
20-down – Former president of America consumed by misguided anger : REAGAN
23-down – Experience cold during most of season : INCUR
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.