This crossword No. 3185 clues and answers were published on Sun 14 Oct 2007 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3185 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Failing to change sides : DEFECT
4-across – Perfumes got from ascetics round about : ESSENCES
9-across – Greek goddess, one by a strong-smelling bush? : ARTEMISIA
11-across – Previous head of a house of friars : PRIOR
12-across – Excessive bureaucracy shown in Communist video : REDTAPE
13-across – True, one crashed on the way : ENROUTE
14-across – Gossip in newspaper hounding president? : BUSHTELEGRAPH
17-across – Repeatedly benefit by article, article on racket involving commander : AGAINANDAGAIN
21-across – To employ fewer is no good : USELESS
22-across – Runs slip away, causing a setback to recovery : RELAPSE
24-across – Girl I care about : ERICA
25-across – Girl chess player, faultless : LILYWHITE
26-across – How an egg may be fried, done slowly : OVEREASY
27-across – Around noon, notice animal doctor coming : ADVENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Harangue family after help upset : DIATRIBE
2-down – Smelly, following high tide : FETID
3-down – Company representative undertaking to bring a cosmetics case : COMPACT
5-down – Assembly, say, attended by singular army officer : STATESGENERAL
6-down – Parking available in first-rate capital city over big stores : EMPORIA
7-down – Mexican barker : CHIHUAHUA
8-down – Cricket team’s carriage : SURREY
10-down – What may revive sailors after flogging arresting onset of mutiny? : SMELLINGSALTS
15-down – A venomous concoction of cider and lager? : SNAKEBITE
16-down – Pastime of painter, Estonian : INTEREST
18-down – Ordinary girl kept in a long time : AVERAGE
19-down – Granted, everyone had debts : ALLOWED
20-down – Arranged let, up overlooking old Elvis’s birthplace : TUPELO
23-down – Vanity shown by party’s leader on journey : PRIDE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.