This crossword No. 29004 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 Feb 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29004 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Get down from there and stop pulling my leg : COMEOFFIT
6-across – Farm animal to lower head in river bend : OXBOW
9-across – Gore beginning to drop into tube : VIDAL
10-across – Vigour I am contributing to a country : ANIMATION
11-across – Detect person’s elastic slipping, a source of optimistic views : ROSETINTED
12-across – Sounds from cat in fashionable street : MEWS
14-across – Numbers of species left common : GENERAL
15-across – Grouse distractedly about Conservative whip : SCOURGE
17-across – An improved partner in crime? : ABETTER
19-across – Not yet in bed, drunk and unable to relax : UPTIGHT
20-across – The besetting sin of the Greens? : ENVY
22-across – See 11 : SPECTACLES
25-across – Exhausting journey to get computer equipment : HARDDRIVE
26-across – Name of songbird, extremely large : TITLE
27-across – Being tense, ramble about buried valuables : TROVE
28-across – Big rodent on the loose in Kentish Town : TONBRIDGE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Substitute fielder? : COVER
2-down – Crazy set of directions were rational : MADESENSE
3-down – Demolish old book, well read : OBLITERATE
4-down – Evasive talk from the cloth : FLANNEL
5-down – Tours round church build muscle : TRICEPS
6-down – Only women in emirate? : OMAN
7-down – Wait around altar finally for her? : BRIDE
8-down – Dishevelled, after a series of blows : WINDSWEPT
13-down – Swindle over farm machinery one is engaged to supply : CONTRACTOR
14-down – Fruit cooked? It used to be fired : GRAPESHOT
16-down – Great duel contested under formal rules : REGULATED
18-down – Salesman isn’t commonly going to change decor : REPAINT
19-down – Pawnbroker has a name like muck : UNCLEAN
21-down – In Spanish port, a Republican sign : VIRGO
23-down – Part of play understood when listening : SCENE
24-down – Slacking, paid less — only half : IDLE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.