This crossword No. 3716 clues and answers were published on Sun 31 Dec 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3716 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Artillery in middle of sustained signal : HERALD
4-across – Vehicle fuel not properly guarded : CAREFUL
9-across – Small cake, favourite one with number around end of buffet : PETITFOUR
10-across – Meeting in university breaking mould : FORUM
11-across – Combine to go round in circuit : LOOP
12-across – Delayed reaction appropriate after image : DOUBLETAKE
14-across – Nun at sea? Prude, awfully old-fashioned : SUPERANNUATED
16-across – Vessel, great success, bearing north ahead of one with power and skill : CRAFTSMANSHIP
20-across – Be deceitful, getting into a state, causing estrangement : ALIENATION
21-across – Stake in card game opponent declared : ANTE
23-across – Singer back in style led appeal : ADELE
24-across – Less wide ground behind energy plant : EDELWEISS
25-across – Doctor sure about name linked to singular lack of moisture : DRYNESS
26-across – Church official against endless remorse in retirement : VERGER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Impossible exercises in pits with sulphur : HOPELESS
2-down – Excited over spicy letter with consideration of past events : RETROSPECTIVELY
3-down – Former illustration in book with page missing : LATE
4-down – Deer united below a ridge in Colorado : CARIBOU
5-down – Expressing resistance, choosing to restrict force : REFLECTING
6-down – Progressive, cross, embracing conflict with weak monarch : FORWARDTHINKING
7-down – Move awkwardly stored furniture : LUMBER
8-down – Expression of surprise, taken in by fraud in case : COCOON
13-down – Relative cheers up over first couple of nights in country : GREATNIECE
15-down – Look outside state’s borders for conciliator : APPEASER
17-down – Shreds potatoes, consuming time : TATTERS
18-down – Low revolutionary tied up : MOORED
19-down – Difficult to grasp a variable risk : HAZARD
22-down – Mawkish material lacking depth : TWEE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.