This crossword No. 3618 clues and answers were published on Sun 07 Feb 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3618 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Short broadcast including a siren prepared for preliminary event : CURTAINRAISER
9-across – Payment to shelter dog not available? Disgusting : REPUGNANT
10-across – Odd editor backing protest : DEMUR
11-across – Just occupied by exercises in public : OPENLY
12-across – Buy tea, filling bag : PURCHASE
14-across – Leader needing attention, in bad shape and beginning to despair : SPEARHEAD
15-across – Part of poem originally about lover : ROMEO
16-across – Comments put forward after reflection : NOTES
18-across – Abandoned right purpose, holding weight : RENOUNCED
20-across – Charm obtaining access : ENTRANCE
21-across – Grow quiet during second defeat : SPROUT
24-across – Finish on intimate terms : CLOSE
25-across – Tests to carry out, designed to provide lessons : TUTORIALS
26-across – Jumping main hurdles as novelist : SALMANRUSHDIE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Load vehicle and leave : CARGO
2-down – Complaints about awards : REPRESENTATIONS
3-down – Run gala badly, becoming gaunt : ANGULAR
4-down – Interact with odd characters out to be smart : NEAT
5-down – Incredible article on time put into measurement of water depth : ASTOUNDING
6-down – Cocktail, rushed, is coming up : SIDECAR
7-down – Mad scandal mayor sorted out for prime minister : RAMSAYMACDONALD
8-down – Force here wrecked ancient property : FREEHOLD
13-down – React to art reproduced in reddish-brown colour : TERRACOTTA
14-down – Pass judgement on grammatical structure : SENTENCE
17-down – Faces swimming large lake to reach mountain : SCAFELL
19-down – Politician with anger restricted by American judges : UMPIRES
22-down – Some detest a stew’s flavour : TASTE
23-down – Root initially under stone I move : STIR
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.