This crossword No. 29611 clues and answers were published on Thu 06 Feb 2025 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29611 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Marriage added to traditions that we recently abandoned : CUSTOMSUNION
9-across – Fat blokes concealed signs of what’s to come : OMENS
10-across – Colourings? Yes, time to be put into puddings : DYESTUFFS
11-across – Waste a sporting triumph : ATROPHY
12-across – Active type, welcoming party, flipping left: he seems bored : DOODLER
13-across – Revolutionary party in thrall to curiously gauche Marxist : CHEGUEVARA
15-across – ‘Long-limbed?’ Scratching head … shaped like Humpty Dumpty! : EGGY
18-across – Major name in astronomy : URSA
19-across – Putin’s aim: to finally shatter belief in better world : UTOPIANISM
22-across – Flatbread taken from fellow at lunchtime? : CHAPATI
24-across – Principally, Achilles’ heel dipped in waterway somewhere in Greece : ARCADIA
25-across – Top biscuit : GARIBALDI
26-across – French river a little Frenchman’s in : SOMME
27-across – To sum up: conservative puncturing diversity’s sister principle : INCONCLUSION
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Grim mating activity including silly leer : CHEERLESS
2-down – Rolling Stone icon on perpetual comeback tour : SISYPHUS
3-down – As mausoleum’s location is seen in Algeria? : ODDLY
4-down – Danger, by the way, for those over 70 : SPEEDTRAP
5-down – No, I sun myself up in the country : NATION
6-down – Anglo-Saxon king, large, wanting the trimmings : OFFAL
7-down – Fragmentary picture of ancient lawgiver : MOSAIC
8-down – Leprosy not beginning to upset bird : OSPREY
14-down – Expressing ill-will, three engaged in civil unrest : VITRIOLIC
16-down – Lad musing about member of association : GUILDSMAN
17-down – Component of woven arc is sinuous flowers : NARCISSI
18-down – A French experimental composer’s release : UNCAGE
20-down – Escaping from trap, Dracula’s prey increasingly beastly : MEANER
21-down – In Bond, female bodyguard almost given licence to kill pandas like this? : BAMBOO
23-down – ‘Ora pro nobis’ partly offering protection : APRON
24-down – Sign-off that might end with an ‘x’? : ADIEU
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.