This crossword No. 3774 clues and answers were published on Sun 10 Feb 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3774 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – ‘Don’t get so excited’? I’m astonished and illuminated! : COOLIT
4-across – Break-fast time? : EASTER
9-across – DCI endlessly wedded to poetical writing: Morse is a good example : CODE
10-across – Insufficient funds to obtain biscuits : SHORTBREAD
11-across – Disrespectfully, the Queen’s on the side of a road leading to a windswept village : LIZARD
12-across – Miracle cure: get practically starkers, caked in dirt : SNAKEOIL
13-across – Spicy snacks go with Italian lager : PEPPERONI
15-across – Goitre has no appeal: it’s a queasy sight : GORE
16-across – Scammers, pests and menaces, primarily : SPAM
17-across – I’d like to sleep easy after a massage : YESPLEASE
21-across – French can add butter to both sides of ‘pain’ : BASTILLE
22-across – ‘Vigorously resist habits’ – one who has them : SISTER
24-across – With time to spare, foolishly romanticise a far-off place : MICRONESIA
25-across – White lie, mostly tall story ultimately : LILY
26-across – The aged are welcomed into German band : GARTER
27-across – Rail is missing from banister : BANTER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sweet treat, cold, with superior casing : CHOCICE
2-down – Toothsome Ganymede, essentially Greek character : OMEGA
3-down – One of us overheard where vitamin C can be found : INSIDER
5-down – 19 martial arts are on the rise? Not entirely : ASTRAL
6-down – Company, they say, with problem, so it’s said: Freeman Hardy Willis, say : THREESOME
7-down – Twig taken from trees all Gipsies regularly ignored : REALISE
8-down – Rhyme, but not reason? : NONSENSEVERSE
14-down – One who you hope leaves their coat in your home : PLASTERER
16-down – Embarrassing when ghastly performer appears in chorus : SHAMING
18-down – Sauce added principally into Italian food? : PASSATA
19-down – Sell, rat out: characteristic of The Sun, etc : STELLAR
20-down – Quietly pounce and land in water : PLUNGE
23-down – At the outset, straining posterior muscle produces an amusing noise : SPLAT
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.