This crossword No. 3017 clues and answers were published on Sun 18 Jul 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3017 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Return game in Japan needs support : GOBACK
4-across – A noisy business house editor swore : AFFIRMED
10-across – Have in one’s possession some half-crowns : OWN
11-across – … no longer this – tell grandee differently : LEGALTENDER
12-across – Flatters light kitchen-sink dramas? : SOFTSOAPS
13-across – River, one featured in superstitions : LOIRE
14-across – Poor, born round unpleasant old constituency : ROTTENBOROUGH
18-across – Tense time ahead? Correct : FUTUREPERFECT
20-across – What a gaucho may have imported into Maracaibo – lasso? : BOLAS
22-across – Unduly led astray by Philip for so long : TOODLEPIP
24-across – This legal process involved errant gamin : ARRAIGNMENT
25-across – One’s image of oneself, for example, facing Opposition’s leader : EGO
26-across – Small telescope used by agent, good young woman : SPYGLASS
27-across – One worried about onset of debility is an inventor : EDISON
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Boy admitting mislaying alphabetical list : GLOSSARY
2-down – Before flying etc abroad, one should get ecclesiastical approval : BENEFITOFCLERGY
3-down – Symptom of fear beginning to concern old soldier : COLDSWEAT
5-down – A series of transparencies records journey : FILMSTRIP
6-down – One with hand that’s perfect : IDEAL
7-down – Film – The Witching Hour, say : MIDNIGHTEXPRESS
8-down – County Durham’s first store, refurbished : DORSET
9-down – A mostly gloomy : AGRA
15-down – Singers in pub : BARITONES
16-down – United Nations told it’s beside the point : UNRELATED
17-down – Resign from favourite Society, upset and depressed : STEPDOWN
19-down – Submarines about at sea, heading for Suez : UBOATS
21-down – Undisturbed, yet subdued : STILL
23-down – Ring writer ready to entertain new ideas : OPEN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.