This crossword No. 3966 clues and answers were published on Sun 16 Oct 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3966 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Features of characters in le Carré’s dénouements? : ACUTEACCENTS
10-across – In Cologne, a restaurant that’s most convenient : NEAREST
11-across – Smaller road? Stop! : TURNOFF
12-across – Rouse rudely, offering French bread : EUROS
13-across – Top award designation Everyman’s beginning to enter … no, second-tier : NOBELIST
15-across – Presiding over pacification? : MODERATING
16-across – So, giant’s coming back : ERGO
18-across – Slurps noisily, a failing : LAPS
20-across – Top courier redirected somewhere in Caribbean : PUERTORICO
22-across – Authorising documents conflict with tirades : WARRANTS
24-across – Feeling pain as good bananas rejected : STUNG
26-across – About to appear in misguided reboot in 31 days’ time : OCTOBER
27-across – Between times, present duck in addition : THERETO
28-across – Is fast, reckless deed providing gratification? : SATISFACTION
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Used grill to cook leafy veg, did you say? : CHARRED
3-down – What’s shown when terribly austere, right? Wrong : TREASURE
4-down – Topless poet wanting chips in a pot? : ANTE
5-down – Tighten one’s belt in joint confines : CUTCORNERS
6-down – Bundle of fibres in cheek : NERVE
7-down – Around India, gift-giving party’s more flamboyant : SHOWIER
8-down – Fail to get most out of what comes from lumbering Welsh poem? : UNDERMILKWOOD
9-down – Fast food galoot’s cooked with no end of fries: that’s not helping : AFATLOTOFGOOD
14-down – Truss with truce, uneasy arrangements : STRUCTURES
17-down – Most rambunctious, TS Eliot’s preface is one about … about uprising : NOISIEST
19-down – Wicked sailors taking exercise, swapping hands : PIRATES
21-down – Indication naming unborn through esoteric Roman obstetrics, primarily? : INUTERO
23-down – Senior religious figure, a bold social-media nuisance : ABBOT
25-down – Pet names including something fiery and Italian : ETNA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.