This crossword No. 3916 clues and answers were published on Sun 31 Oct 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3916 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Forward and back, witch’s cat : OVERFAMILIAR
9-across – Love, I managed, if in a roundabout way, to see an opera : FIDELIO
10-across – Win a motorbike : TRIUMPH
11-across – East End theologian’s kind of a sponge : LOOFA
12-across – Elderly relatives transfixed by Brussels body, one serving Europeans : GRECIANS
14-across – What come and go, largely, in the main? : TIDALWAVES
15-across – After end of jog, before start of ablutions, Everyman’s smelling like old meat : GAMY
17-across – Got up for wine : ROSE
19-across – Grand won by tyrant after card game somewhere in Balkans : MONTENEGRO
21-across – When you eat meatiest stews : TEATIMES
23-across – Pooh’s friend’s time for bed : ROOST
25-across – Lady on rock, evermore lethally emitting intoning, primarily? : LORELEI
26-across – Ordering à la carte, rejecting starters of andouillettes and aïoli, English getting something sweet : TREACLE
27-across – Trembling, gutted after comic genius dismisses second philosopher : WITTGENSTEIN
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Six initially dubious etymologies dictionary recorded : VIDEOED
3-down – Without fail, staggering blearily : RELIABLY
4-down – River in Slavonic : AVON
5-down – Slips into conversation: ‘Cistern jet’s faulty’ : INTERJECTS
6-down – A little fossil I acquired forming part of pelvis : ILIAC
7-down – Dance with bachelor, a pudding full of booze : RUMBABA
8-down – Move fast, with bravery at last, daring to find source of spirit : WHISKYBOTTLE
9-down – ‘Top speed. Satisfied …?’ met with silence : FULLTHROTTLE
13-down – Singer’s festive song getting longer : CAROLEKING
16-down – Inert gas combusts, most hot : ANGRIEST
18-down – Bird in box leading to argument : SPARROW
20-down – Coaching with amateur wanting to boil dumplings : GNOCCHI
22-down – Key? Perhaps. Hole? So we’re told : ISLET
24-down – Shock as potty is overturned : STUN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.