This crossword No. 28969 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Jan 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28969 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Hundreds of runs etc — strangely, that’s admitted : CENTURIES
8-across – Amusing setter’s latest splits party fifty-fifty : DROLL
9-across – A hundred to clue 4 : FIVESCORE
10-across – A hundred pence to embrace that fellow ape : CHIMP
12-across – Cartoons from Japan are funny; matinees not showing ET : ANIMES
13-across – Support for sources of fresh water? Hear, hear! : WELLSAID
14-across – Resented being drugged inappropriately : GRUDGED
17-across – See 23 : THROUGH
20-across – Retires with everyone’s favourite vessels after every other raid : ADJOURNS
22-across – Boatman told to go for being inattentive : ABSENT
24-across – Lows include the core of a hundred states of mind : MOODS
25-across – Notes heartless move by way of working with African country, deporting the weak : MEMORANDA
26-across – Work on reported poverty : KNEAD
27-across – Gave wrong name and governed after false claims : MISCALLED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – More than a hundred corrections to ignore : REGION
2-down – A way to understand about Boatman, broadcast digitally : STREAMED
3-down – Perhaps Vincent de Paul, a priest in Gascony, brought up burps : ERUCTS
4-down – Creates fresh draft from a hundred raw soldiers : REDRAWS
5-down – Born romantic: a hundred music scores all begun by one composer : BRAHMS
6-down – Perhaps ConservativeHome seized by slow type, heading for recession : SLUMPING
11-down – Put briefly into boiling water, cutting out new cold tripe : BLAH
15-down – Trade uncovered over a hundred finalists in European space station : RADIOONE
16-down – It’s worth a hundred cents to escape from Monsieur Obrecht : EURO
18-down – Perhaps glass ceiling: no opening for job with old head of company at its core : OBSTACLE
19-down – Fan of austerity called out as an inflexible parasite : ASCETIC
21-down – Showing pity for nothing: an empty hundred years, with no beginning and no end : OHDEAR
22-down – One hundred taken on by champion simultaneously : ATONCE
23-down – Good hundredth puzzle, accepted without debate? : NODDED
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.