This crossword No. 29497 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29497 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – The hours oddly spent churning over and over secret : HUSHHUSH
5-across – Stokes derides shifts : SMOCKS
10-across – Vertex of Summer Triangle – dependably evident nightly – essentially blue at the outset : DENEB
11-across – Scintillating 7, in my flying visits, representative of the bigger picture : METONYMIC
12-across – New lander first to penetrate alien world : REDPLANET
13-across – Ara represents this single missing blue-green star : ALTAR
14-across – Evidence of fall, meteoric for one boxer : CRATER
15-across – Returning carrier ship receiving earth pictures, not immediately decipherable? : REBUSES
18-across – Pounds, shillings and pence, steel warped : PESTLES
20-across – One helps out leading characters : ALEPHS
22-across – Sample from traveller in G-suit, features of Saturn : RINGS
24-across – Buzz’s first problem after shortage – result of huge collapse : BLACKHOLE
25-across – One new member of quartet, Tim Peake, gutted Virgin : INVIOLATE
26-across – As an alternative, cut celestial path : ORBIT
27-across – Cherished by SpaceX – Eternal City : EXETER
28-across – Linesman’s not one for stress plugging in Empire State : TENNYSON
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – What about launching a Soviet climber? : HEDERA
2-down – Standards slipping, we fly at night : SANDDARTS
3-down – See Phoebe, Bull and edges of 7 flying in astronomical equipment : HUBBLETELESCOPE
4-down – Discussion group remains animated : SEMINAR
6-down – People on radio to instruct landing outside Belgium are sadly cracking up : MENTALBREAKDOWN
7-down – I circle the sun bed occupied by mining engineer : COMET
8-down – Most assuredly ground-to-air ceasefires will include confines of space : SECUREST
9-down – Having visited e.g. 10, astronaut’s back home at last, he says : STATER
16-down – It takes a lot to learn : SCHOOLBUS
17-down – Characteristic of fans not winning game : SPORTIVE
19-down – Group aboard last couple of rockets set up midnight rendezvous : SABBAT
20-down – University types created cycles in unit : ACADEME
21-down – Hardly the sphere of the old-fashioned scientist! : NEWTON
23-down – Stars suddenly brighter and twinkly on average, before storm : NOVAE
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.