This crossword No. 3461 clues and answers were published on Sun 03 Feb 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3461 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Feasts abroad, most free from risk : SAFEST
4-across – Film luminary was screening beginning of Rocky : STARWARS
9-across – An artist holding shot rabbit : ANGORA
10-across – A blaze inside chimney in plant : LABURNUM
11-across – Book had to include right dates : HARDTIMES
13-across – One avoiding work, badly riled : IDLER
14-across – Dam lake for religious head : MOTHERSUPERIOR
17-across – Similarly, purchase, say, an identical disc : BYTHESAMETOKEN
21-across – Take mouthful from ragout : TASTE
23-across – A new suggestion concerning an hors d’oeuvre : ANTIPASTO
24-across – What 18 is especially? : ABOVEALL
25-across – Key cricketer, first at the crease? : OPENER
26-across – In stand is eastern paper : TREATISE
27-across – Recited flourishing novelist : GREENE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bandage the man after violent blow : SWATHE
2-down – Reckon dignitary’s not in : FIGUREOUT
3-down – Withdraw with slight injury : SCRATCH
5-down – Clear river blocked by unruly US clan : TRANSLUCENT
6-down – Procedure at home getting in the way : ROUTINE
7-down – Invalidate yearbook, with article missing : ANNUL
8-down – Run out after dark in a Mexican’s hat : SOMBRERO
12-down – Opera singer, Lanza, cut short La Scala broadcast : MARIACALLAS
15-down – Fashionable German city church, basically : INESSENCE
16-down – Summary of a bishop’s religious pamphlet : ABSTRACT
18-down – Continually rest, heading off for mountain : EVEREST
19-down – Working daily? In theory : ONPAPER
20-down – Origin of HP, perhaps, reportedly : SOURCE
22-down – Angry about wife, used bad language : SWORE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.