This crossword No. 28963 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Jan 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28963 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – On reflection, gang needs to accept bereavement to flourish : BLOSSOM
5-across – Island’s problem with American transport: no terminus : SUMATRA
9-across – A second city’s somersaulting dance : SALSA
10-across – Fly with management, a feature of which is doubles all round! : DARTBOARD
11-across – Light composition of Rice, incorporating classical composer : CHANDELIER
12-across – Powder used by first alchemists : TALC
14-across – Raven, dog and rodent eating new fruit : BLACKCURRANT
18-across – Honourable dignitary’s after power lift : PRAISEWORTHY
21-across – Off-colour and about to enter shaft : RACY
22-across – Paying for fine inlaid top furniture item : PROFITABLE
25-across – Bad feeling of many against independence leader — one from Italy, maybe : HOSTILITY
26-across – Fungus shape : MOULD
27-across – Drop gets player finally into touch : TRICKLE
28-across – Playing clarinet and briefly leaving performance : RECITAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Cross bishop breathes irregularly etc : BISECT
2-down – Painting has the power that a mechanic could make good use of : OILCAN
3-down – Shock — southern ladies running riot round prison! : SCANDALISE
4-down – Decoration somehow made large : MEDAL
5-down – Vehicle’s way over left side of carriageway, by a river : STREETCAR
6-down – Classic story: Short Time from the pen of Francis? : MOBY
7-down – Time’s against Shakespeare’s wife? Husband’s off in the direction indicated : THATAWAY
8-down – Recklessness of car almost hitting a centre of population : AUDACITY
13-down – Marry Hitch? Perhaps, but it’s not indicative of a steady heart : ARRHYTHMIC
15-down – Old playwright having no bottle has eg a whisky accompaniment : COWARDICE
16-down – Work period top protection wear for the Met? : OPERAHAT
17-down – Has life in Cairns destroyed flowers? : NARCISSI
19-down – Take criminally bad union leader before court : ABDUCT
20-down – Strong Brussels youth raised in a medieval way : FEUDAL
23-down – Bill’s comparatively astute : FLYER
24-down – See 6 : DICK
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.