This crossword No. 28857 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Sep 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28857 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Food processor that is broken by small people : COLONISE
9-across – Final letters backed wise work plan : OMEGAS
10-across – Poet joins volunteers providing cover for knight : TABARD
12-across – Sign of distress as fall follows sprint : TEARDROP
13-across – Greek letter in religious painting, not the consonant : ETA
14-across – Possible need for invalid inferior writer switching contents : BEDPAN
16-across – Unusually veracious, apart from one piece that’s bad for circulation : VARICOSE
17-across – Deny having daughter’s ring put in a car? : DISAVOW
20-across – Deployed joint force European commanded, holding weapon : ELBOWED
23-across – Willing to admit nothing after the atom disintegrated : ATHOMETO
24-across – Neither posted nor moved? : UNSENT
26-across – Valley’s width in metric unit : CWM
27-across – Second question in 30 — answer’s ‘trees’ : SEQUOIAS
28-across – A youth going on lake for sail : LATEEN
31-across – Nasty person curate had to endure? Not entirely : BADEGG
32-across – What’s old in phony antique? Solve that! : EQUATION
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – State we hear spelt without consonants? : IOWA
2-down – Tiny bit in audiotape : IOTA
3-down – Ordered Democratic president outside : BIDDEN
4-down – Once a TV broadcast is ready, used in some countries : CENTAVO
5-down – Like solo organ performance in audition : MONAURAL
6-down – Comedians disturbed about upper-class lying : MENDACIOUS
7-down – In heartless prison, I lowered blind : JALOUSIE
11-down – Start to grow capital, having got rid of a pest : BUD
14-down – Delivery info initially upset person : BOD
15-down – Pitch checker’s routine nap disturbed : PIANOTUNER
18-down – Wear thin, possibly becoming bare : INTHERAW
19-down – Holes launches : OPENINGS
21-down – What I must have, but not in that case : DOT
22-down – Sections of vessels with three parts removed : FOCSLES
24-down – What’s German city got that Irish quarter hasn’t? : UMLAUT
25-down – Female contributing to the website we’ve viewed regularly : EWE
29-down – Dance costume pronounced excessively dated : TUTU
30-down – Frenzied expression as English promise to pay up : EUOI
This crossword has in total 34 where 16 are across and 18 are down.