This crossword No. 29282 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Jan 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29282 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Little character shown by husband in corporation occupying permanent residence : TOMTHUMB
6-across – Main country for monster : MEDUSA
9-across – Defective directive defended by agent : FLAWED
10-across – Machine gun dude fed to a Scot surreptitiously : STACCATO
11-across – Curious things I see with cat or cuckoo : ESOTERICA
13-across – Home of fried chicken and pork pie for pop icon : KYLIE
15-across – Cricket side takes part of wicket out for a while? : ONBAIL
17-across – Swift – doing what it does? : FLYING
18-across – Thief looking at gull from behind : LOOTER
19-across – Those from outskirts of 21 across on posh carriage : LANDAU
21-across – Country found coming through Mali by air : LIBYA
22-across – Spooner’s admonishment to ankle-biting chickens, the tops! : POLONECKS
25-across – Bird sanctuary foreign to herons : HENROOST
26-across – By the sound of it, albatross an albatross? : BURDEN
28-across – Issue securing pile, able to click into place : SNAPON
29-across – Movement of turntable perhaps derailing train too : ROTATION
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – One bird or another dropping head : OWL
3-down – That is an expression of pain in 16 down? : TOWIT
4-down – Little rubbish is endured with ultimate character incarcerated : UNDERSIZED
5-down – Tick caught by mite cut in half : BISECT
6-down – Last seen of vegetarianism, then swallow – this? : MEAT
7-down – Parrot perhaps – when sick? : DICKYBIRD
8-down – Vulnerable type meeting bird : SITTINGDUCK
12-down – Canary, relative of 8 down? : STOOLPIGEON
14-down – Gal with rook mistaken, however, for the Sparrow from Minsk : OLGAKORBUT
16-down – Explosive device in birdcage, say? : BOOBYTRAP
20-down – 2 down that smells : HOOTER
23-down – Heron bagged by hunter, gentleman from the south : EGRET
24-down – American diver – turkey, dodo or drongo? : LOON
27-down – Music genre, ‘ouse arising : EMO
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.