This crossword No. 4008 clues and answers were published on Sun 13 Aug 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 4008 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Withdraw fix : REPAIR
4-across – Light reading? : KINDLE
8-across – So endlessly berate furiously: show some backbone! : VERTEBRAE
9-across – One’s destined to have hot head in sports event : MATCH
11-across – Jolly’s hiring ship: it’s renovated : INHIGHSPIRITS
13-across – Red coat fashioned in ’20s style : ARTDECO
14-across – Greek character averse to a fruity Red? : CHIANTI
16-across – Collection of lies in dispute : ATISSUE
18-across – Gap’s first day of trading : OPENING
20-across – Lots shall hide out like Methuselah : OLDASTHEHILLS
23-across – Calling, wanting portion of macaroni cheese : NICHE
24-across – Fancy flesh out : ELABORATE
25-across – Whispered comments in LPs’ first tracks : ASIDES
26-across – Temperament of eg iron, did you say? : METTLE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Range demonstrated to have no beginning or end : ROVE
2-down – Soldier on some uppers is tingling : PERSIST
3-down – Reworked cheesiest material way up North : ICESHEETS
4-down – Chills hake, escalope and cod : KEEPSACOOLHEAD
5-down – We hear one opposing building in clouds : NIMBI
6-down – Lettish : LATVIAN
7-down – Everyman’s stuck between bores and rotters in stalls : DRAGSONESHEELS
10-down – Surprised expression before attacks from airborne in battle : HASTINGS
12-down – French president’s eaten starter of andouilles; later duck and almondy cake : MACAROON
15-down – Disco classic, If Slippery Character Comes to Nothing : IFEELLOVE
17-down – Ordains where water flows : INDUCTS
19-down – Mo’s coffee : INSTANT
21-down – Rate of knots in ocean – capsized! : SPEED
22-down – Shoe tree regularly rejected as present : HERE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.