This crossword No. 28559 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Sep 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28559 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Apt reading Bond created : PADDINGTONBEAR
8-across – Cooking range that’s popular once more : AGAIN
9-across – Aleksandr, Sergei and Oleg are just pets, I hear : MEERKATS
11-across – Someone sure to succeed but isn’t sharp : NATURAL
12-across – Cocktail attachment : SIDECAR
13-across – Sub edited unfinished column : LOCUM
15-across – Classmates or upper-class mates? : PEERGROUP
17-across – Wader changes colour : TURNSTONE
20-across – Earth and lime mixture providing resin : ELEMI
21-across – Graceful and neat, oddly concealing limb : ELEGANT
23-across – Novice competitor : ENTRANT
25-across – Cook lining up initially one type of pasta : LINGUINI
26-across – Publicity for Farah? : PROMO
27-across – Self-centred response from Jill after fall : IMALLRIGHTJACK
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – All the cops in new uniform? Wrong! : PLAINCLOTHES
2-down – Outline for military service? : DRAFT
3-down – Topless Italian has to tickle bottomless numskull : IGNORAMUS
4-down – First of the girls with simply tailored tunic : GYMSLIP
5-down – Work in a supervisory role, like a bishop? : OVERSEE
6-down – It’s terrible about half of lake having dried out : BAKED
7-down – Take choir trip to Jerusalem, say : ARTICHOKE
10-down – Brother who keeps mum : TRAPPISTMONK
14-down – Medicare provision originally organised — it’s now or never! : CARPEDIEM
16-down – Deteriorates, as a user may : GOESTOPOT
18-down – Isolated rock from Route 51 : OUTLIER
19-down – Time for ironing? : EVENING
22-down – Backer on the Tube? : ANGEL
24-down – Calls on head regularly for welcome : ALOHA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.