This crossword No. 3140 clues and answers were published on Sun 03 Dec 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3140 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Give an account of extremely divisive writer : DESCRIBE
5-across – Modest teas prepared after church : CHASTE
10-across – Impersonate girl in La Bohème beginning to cry : MIMIC
11-across – Smuggled spirits? Nonsense : MOONSHINE
12-across – Fancy the Wise Men being taken in in the East : IMAGINE
13-across – Fluid on items, slightly wet : MOISTEN
14-across – Clearly guilty, so dismissed during dramatic scene? : CAUGHTINTHEACT
17-across – See Edinburgh-born inventor in plant : CANTERBURYBELL
21-across – Patent medicine – not rums, unfortunately! : NOSTRUM
23-across – Scored at a brisk speed, a fifty by member run out : ALLEGRO
24-across – Supporter of Parliament’s lively leader : ROUNDHEAD
25-across – Coach tour rearranged following onset of tonsillitis : TUTOR
26-across – Sharp, boy wearing one : ONTIME
27-across – Find out about unusual sort of photography : INFRARED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Prepare top field : DOMAIN
2-down – Another identical stove at home : SAMEAGAIN
3-down – Shocking type of music : ROCKING
4-down – Two bouncers about to, very close together : BUMPERTOBUMPER
6-down – Holds that man’s heroin and cannabis : HASHISH
7-down – Anglo-Irish satirist is fast : SWIFT
8-down – An extremely long time – possibly entire year going round Turkey’s capital : ETERNITY
9-down – Vulgar, with what could be no regard for the usual type : COMMONORGARDEN
15-down – Reptile flying at gorilla : ALLIGATOR
16-down – Written outline, showing no care, is sloppy : SCENARIO
18-down – Almost too soon, party married for a title : EARLDOM
19-down – Hold up one who’s taking flight across Sweden : BOLSTER
20-down – End of August ‘orrible? Scorching : TORRID
22-down – Avoid rear-end of cart or crash : SHUNT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.