This crossword No. 29489 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29489 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
4-across – Copper right to enter spot – it’s safe : SECURE
6-across – Violet ladies’ underwear? Theodore trembled : VIBRATED
9-across – Beef meat : GROUSE
10-across – Spilling the beans about women engaging in group sex : SWINGING
11-across – Guardian is not partisan, after editing : PATRONSAINT
15-across – Cleaner in Post Office wearing fake ring : SHAMPOO
17-across – Little person from Warsaw one’s seen in a pond : TADPOLE
18-across – Deadly creature – he’ll like war, possibly : KILLERWHALE
22-across – Rumpus periodically follows media exercises : PRESSUPS
23-across – A Republican forbidding passion : ARDOUR
24-across – Awful love rat entertaining one satirical Frenchman : VOLTAIRE
25-across – Maybe bitter about odd parts of rugby jersey’s pattern? : ARGYLE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Painting outer parts of foyer enhances casino : FRESCO
2-down – Some achievement in whist, leading? You might blow it : TINWHISTLE
3-down – Weed in nature I’d cultivated : URINATED
4-down – E.g. envy about good job, one providing info for drivers : SIGNPOST
5-down – Split personality, perhaps, of actor in a shot : CROATIAN
7-down – Leader of Tories, crude for Labour : TOIL
8-down – Scoundrels perform leads in Gilbert and Sullivan : DOGS
12-down – Loot left aboard for killjoy : SPOILSPORT
13-down – Rubbish by a Conservative using spin : ROTATORY
14-down – Run through outskirts of Rochdale on black car : REHEARSE
16-down – Asian country’s king, in pain, sat awkwardly : PAKISTAN
19-down – Suspicious about the king’s call to arms : WARCRY
20-down – Wide boy and dignitaries turning up : SPIV
21-down – Whiskery aquatic mammal in the deep lake : SEAL
This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.