This crossword No. 28502 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 Jul 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28502 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Supreme soldier’s horse : PARAMOUNT
8-across – I leave European city as champ : MUNCH
9-across – Fruit that might be blown? : RASPBERRY
10-across – What remains after fool picks up high explosive : ASHES
12-across – Celebrity: extremely risky to like the Sky at Night? : STARRY
13-across – With tail of badger, it helps brew love potions : PHILTRES
16-across – Act of avoiding the answer after retirement to ‘Do you spend?’ : EVASION
19-across – Spooner’s corrupt father on TV makes portable furniture : TENTBED
22-across – Most sharp statues crumble with time : ASTUTEST
25-across – Country surrounding Reading? Certainly not! : NORWAY
27-across – Cove to squeal out loud : CREEK
28-across – 17 is not the heart of bingo in afterthought : PAINTINGS
29-across – Play, perhaps, Hamlet, involving Claudius’s crown : DANCE
30-across – Catches prisoners stealing land : CONTRACTS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sailor returns with another rock : BASALT
2-down – 5 and 1 primes? Wrong — they’re figures of the imagination : VAMPIRES
3-down – 5050 ÷ 1 close to infinity? That’s remote : LONELY
4-down – Seduces sexy partners right away : ENTRAPS
5-down – Group supports students’ uprising at dusk : SUNSET
6-down – Plan the start of school: a little science, then English : SCHEME
11-down – Lithium and iron sparkle : LIFE
14-down – Polish stone endlessly : RUB
15-down – Vicious man’s raising hell : SID
16-down – Rent finally collected by each foreign letter : ETA
17-down – Knack of regularly slicing carrot : ART
18-down – My numbers! : ONES
20-down – End trimmed fur being gathered by volunteers online? : TERMINAL
21-down – Shabby hotel hides a new drug : ETHANOL
23-down – Ignoring It, it’s the best horror film : SCREAM
24-down – In Paris a supermarket removes Tango for major international operation : UNESCO
25-down – Tiny robot working at nine : NANITE
26-down – Pyongyang’s typical contribution to having acute worries about the world : ANGSTY
This crossword has in total 32 where 14 are across and 18 are down.