This crossword No. 3896 clues and answers were published on Sun 13 Jun 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3896 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Reading – Amsterdam, perhaps – discussed by these? : BOOKGROUPS
6-across – He’s not out of US Cabinet : SCAB
9-across – Horrid child is vain? Not half, the French admitted: that’s capital : BRATISLAVA
10-across – Soundly defeat a character from Greece : BETA
12-across – Punch drunk earlier, journalist giving little away : TIGHTFISTED
15-across – Rectangle … hang on … maybe bit unclear … squashed, primarily! : RHOMBUS
16-across – Pamphlet tersely conveys messages : LETTERS
17-across – A priest, old-fashioned, got around, moved with the times : ADAPTED
19-across – Greek and a Scandinavian heading west to W Indies location : GRENADA
20-across – Well-aimed dart, very fine to bag five hundred and one: drink? : DOUBLEVODKA
23-across – Curry accompaniment, whichever way you look at it! : NAAN
24-across – Empty room getting statuary displaying monarch : MARYSTUART
25-across – Orders essentially insane physio : SAYS
26-across – Having gone backward, Spanish car’s finally gone forward – fixed! : DEEPSEATED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Two arts degrees, that’s sweet : BABA
2-down – Romania, a little country : OMAN
3-down – Initiate violence, toilet bag not prepared : GOINTOBATTLE
4-down – Requires bilge, so babbles : OBLIGES
5-down – Important rising star oddly missing football : PIVOTAL
7-down – Natter about vacuous froth, wee time wasted! : CHEWTHEFAT
8-down – Desirous boy first getting small rest and biscuit : BRANDYSNAP
11-down – ’51: Attlee four times suffering rumours : TITTLETATTLE
13-down – Dogs Spooner’s given M Eastern culinary staples : GREATDANES
14-down – In remix, bury a vocal that’s list of words … : VOCABULARY
18-down – … crank up Greek character I’ve seen with intro of drums : DEVIATE
19-down – Wobbly, pudgy, round – Everyman’s diet’s beginning – let’s go : GIDDYUP
21-down – ‘How to catch fish?’ ‘Attack with dogs’ : BAIT
22-down – Horse, bolt : STUD
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.