This crossword No. 4012 clues and answers were published on Sun 10 Sep 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 4012 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Fall to the ground : DROP
3-across – Extremely dark sweatshirt worn : SWARTHIEST
9-across – Soldiers, Italian, following peacekeepers : UNIT
10-across – Teach a lesson in specialist area : DISCIPLINE
11-across – Feeling giddy before stakes amassed in sports venue : SWIMMINGPOOL
15-across – Madness without Suggs at the front? It’s meaningless : INANITY
16-across – Twisted conceit: Tolkien’s monster’s a meanie : SCROOGE
17-across – Ape with neck out of shape: it’s a bone : KNEECAP
19-across – A little ecstatic at a language that’s spoken in Iberia : CATALAN
20-across – Son has cloudy disposition in place of learning : SUNDAYSCHOOL
23-across – Actors’ performances, amateur, drawn out: pretends to enjoy it : PLAYSALONG
24-across – Is unable to sermonise : CANT
25-across – Priest’s set off to find relative : STEPSISTER
26-across – Naked, bashful, praiseful verses : ODES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Chicken pieces, as seen in steel pan : DRUMSTICKS
2-down – Begins and gives a speech having consumed one drink : ORIGINATES
4-down – Dash with money from the South to get to Houston? : WHITNEY
5-down – Initially playing for time, intones instructions : RECIPES
6-down – Big beast close to Arctic, barking a kind of oath : HIPPOCRATIC
7-down – In earliest stages : ERIN
8-down – Reportedly, players proliferate : TEEM
12-down – Seaways offering larger things to eat : MAINCOURSES
13-down – Playwright having chicken after Christmas : NOELCOWARD
14-down – Once again, blows up ten flares … I digress : REINFLATES
18-down – Quietly confuses those propelling a boat : PADDLES
19-down – Urge to tuck into something sugary that’s spicy : CAYENNE
21-down – Work’s over; drink up : OPUS
22-down – A passing diversion, Everyman’s beginning to lose freshness : FADE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.