This crossword No. 3839 clues and answers were published on Sun 10 May 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3839 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Idiot to listen to Observer bigwig : CLOTHEARED
6-across – Extraordinary power sees prison term reduced, twice : JUJU
9-across – ‘Substance’ and ‘limitless mass’, we’re told; time will tell : WAITANDSEE
10-across – Notion discovered in review of encyclopaedia : IDEA
12-across – Frantic Met’s about to save people offering defences : EMBANKMENTS
15-across – One of two footballers, calm, returning with malice concealed : NEVILLE
16-across – Bathroom features: abrasive hard sponges, primarily? : LOOFAHS
17-across – Some narwhal I butchered to get seafood : HALIBUT
19-across – Wood that sang, perhaps : NATALIE
20-across – Hansel and Gretel running with wobbly legs away from brute : NEANDERTHAL
23-across – Flower taken from Fair Isle : IRIS
24-across – Company minutes with potential to settle : COMPROMISE
25-across – Primarily, geriatric and getting asinine? : GAGA
26-across – One who looks at signs: ‘logo-starer’, fancifully : ASTROLOGER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bullies those with beef? : COWS
2-down – Road signs every so often involved God : ODIN
3-down – Star perhaps loved by any he moved : HEAVENLYBODY
4-down – German car tooted endlessly within earshot : AUDIBLE
5-down – Timeless English aquatic bird on a lake : ETERNAL
7-down – Danube and Nile flowing? That’s beyond doubt : UNDENIABLE
8-down – Nudist’s sea-swimming without support : UNASSISTED
11-down – What’s produced by conversion of us immoral lot? : IMMORTALSOUL
13-down – Wench wanting to repeatedly lose weight to become delightful : ENCHANTING
14-down – Reckoning essence of native language is translated : EVALUATING
18-down – Stimulants: great amounts vessel contained : TURNONS
19-down – Nary a little laugh for a loser : NOHOPER
21-down – Unpleasant odour of ancient pottery : MING
22-down – Poet to look like a wolf, reportedly : LEAR
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.