This crossword No. 28945 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 Dec 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28945 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Hopping mad — we get VAT on traditional British fare : MEATAND
5-across – See 1 : TWOVEG
9-across – Now their work became less acceptable : WORETHIN
10-across – One type of racing at venue for another — largely a shambles : FIASCO
12-across – Slightly backtracking, show deference to biblical couple going steady : ONANEVENKEEL
15-across – Escapes, just about, on hearing wife’s in the vicinity : NEARMISSES
17-across – Bill’s old trouble : ADO
19-across – Neckwear could be junk, mostly : BOA
20-across – Plant ground more millet : IMMORTELLE
22-across – Checking work from one of the Royals playing game? : PROOFREADING
26-across – They may be in bed — one’s about to get up : IRISES
27-across – Like a teacher, used role-play at one college : DIDACTIC
28-across – ‘That OK then?’ Lad rudely: ‘I’m not interested!’ : TALKTO
29-across – See 28 : THEHAND
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Admit money originally cut : MOWN
2-down – Dangerous to leave hotel, which is spacious : AIRY
3-down – One fashionable piece of writing? Could be yes and no : ANTONYMS
4-down – Countryman’s pronounced stoop : DEIGN
6-down – Nag’s sounding off — wife cross : WHINNY
7-down – Cutting through corruption, start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way : VISCERALLY
8-down – Sentimental slush — see right through the German beauty queen? : GOODLOOKER
11-down – Poet taking sweetheart round Spanish city : OVIEDO
13-down – Protestant archbishop’s first proscription overturned — past it sadly : ANABAPTIST
14-down – Can you connect with this form of humour? : LAVATORIAL
16-down – Half, nearly three quarters of words explosive : SEMTEX
18-down – United lifted in first leg a long time ago : STONEAGE
21-down – Move French regularly interrupting at the back : AFFECT
23-down – Tenor Domingo’s initial break : DRIFT
24-down – Given up before, this smoker : ETNA
25-down – Holed in one side, catamaran partly capsized : ACED
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.