This crossword No. 29286 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 Jan 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29286 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Vocal practice: feed into the endless calling : THROATSINGING
10-across – The first to look away, due to star exploding : OUTSTARED
11-across – Sound of ignominious defeat, unholy alliance originally having done U-turn : AUDIO
12-across – Maiden voyage by small destroyer leaving America : VIRGO
13-across – See 8 Down : WANDERERS
14-across – Tempers are initially absent where unmarried couples live together? : REINSIN
16-across – Arm broke, then leg, ultimately in shock : STENGUN
18-across – Players in Irish barony once defeated competitor : ALSORAN
20-across – Merit a couple of eggs from French waiter? : DESERVE
21-across – Umpteen converts set about Catholic, small proportion : PERCENTUM
23-across – Am I less than friendly guy? : CABLE
24-across – Classic line in game of cricket effective, at first : OLDIE
25-across – An Italian city’s – one in the US? : ANNAPOLIS
26-across – I smiled if worried about discontentment in career: is – that it? : MIDLIFECRISIS
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Random: this is more, though not entirely, haphazard : HITORMISS
3-down – Cap off cook : OUTDO
4-down – Action of football player by virtue of good result : THROWIN
5-down – Marks in Germany invested in playing tennis : INDENTS
6-down – Awkward when leader of gang short of competition? : GRACELESS
7-down – Gentle encouragement good in painting? : NUDGE
8-down – Spare outside left brought in by West Ham, top’s beaten bottom in Blackburn Rovers football team : WOLVERHAMPTON
9-down – Ridiculous piece nurse cuts off having opened Uncle Sam’s zip? : NONSENSEVERSE
15-down – Benefit increase with ever-changing investment? : SERVEWELL
17-down – Supermarket after things with squashed flies in the middle for biscuit : GARIBALDI
19-down – Really lacking in energy, on going uphill around hospital : NOTHALF
20-down – Very bad day, one covered by last month : DEMONIC
22-down – Head cut from nail with two straight lines : RADII
23-down – Isle in 124 days? : CAPRI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.