This crossword No. 29696 clues and answers were published on Fri 16 May 2025 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29696 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Outstanding rule about dead fascist,as his friends called him? : OSWALD
5-across – Intellectual rebel has accident with car : CEREBRAL
9-across – Almost deceived at tea dance : CHACONNE
10-across – Against epithet for the four Beatles in private conversation : CONFAB
11-across – Bird entered the water the far side of the pond : DOVE
12-across – Nursing a broken knee,turn to worship now in American style : YANKEEFIED
13-across – One greeting king is servile,not unpleasant : KISSER
14-across – The centre of Bangor? : DOWNTOWN
16-across – Costing a bomb to be sceptical : AGNOSTIC
19-across – I stole Christmas,and grimace at church : GRINCH
21-across – Clamour interrupts lengthy sermon for special service : ORDINATION
23-across – Start off speaking with grit : SAND
24-across – Charge a line of waiters has announced : ACCUSE
25-across – Call to attention fifty competitors that may be drilled : OILFIELD
26-across – Figures and a piece of data applied to the rest of Jan : STATUARY
27-across – Under compulsion,you make irregular patterns : TIEDYE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – School cane,a stinger,wielded across Charlie,a paradoxical creature : SCHRODINGERSCAT
3-down – Old soldiers have twinges crossing two rivers : ARCHERS
4-down – Comic part performed for three-ha’pence once : DANDYPRAT
5-down – Won everything when up,having lost everything when out : CLEANED
6-down – A survey run,and behold! : RECCE
7-down – Use live computer image of suspect with name attached : BENEFIT
8-down – That’s a threat of retaliation in chess,for example : AGAMETWOCANPLAY
15-down – Sleepers in monastery abroad losing pants : WAGONSLIT
17-down – Old bridge,not a tube : OVIDUCT
18-down – Start to cultivate non-native tree,its heart extracted for coffee substitute : CHICORY
20-down – Introduce oxygen,burning part of church : INSPIRE
22-down – Ring area of the kidneys,not large : ARENA
This crossword has in total 28 where 16 are across and 12 are down.