This crossword No. 3965 clues and answers were published on Sun 09 Oct 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3965 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Cleaner cut out unwillingness : RELUCTANCE
6-across – Nag a swimmer : CARP
9-across – Monks party with pint-sized beers? : DOMINICANS
10-across – Everyman rues regularly being simple : MERE
11-across – Proficiently cook pungent almondy dessert : BAKEWELLTART
15-across – Novelist related incomplete tale, not right : TOLSTOY
16-across – Showing signs of experience, worked from home? : LIVEDIN
17-across – Most frilly, encased in lilac – i.e., stimulating : LACIEST
19-across – Not good, missing small cakes : MUFFINS
20-across – Interbreed one’s deer, did you say? I swear! : CROSSMYHEART
23-across – Gently knocks back argument : SPAT
24-across – I avert their topless cavorting in Côte d’Azur etc : THERIVIERA
25-across – A collection of rabbits suffices : DOES
26-across – Air arrival : APPEARANCE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Intruder, somewhat impolite : RUDE
2-down – Large Incan metropolitan area : LIMA
3-down – Get through to little Leonard’s way of seeing things : CONTACTLENS
4-down – Mischievous English rector with yen for sport : ARCHERY
5-down – Obscure, formerly, in California : CONCEAL
7-down – Home to ancient Wonder, dramatic rain and density in Amazon’s character : ALEXANDRIA
8-down – Bizarrely persistent charm : PRETTINESS
12-down – Britpop anthem Fever Lover I remixed : LIVEFOREVER
13-down – Perversely idealistic and stressed, in a way : ITALICISED
14-down – Somehow locate tree for pickers? : ELECTORATE
18-down – Store trifles and beer ingredient : TOYSHOP
19-down – ‘Exercise core, men’: former tennis ace : MCENROE
21-down – Carol heading north in Spanish city : LEON
22-down – With no coverage, support announced : BARE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.