This crossword No. 3978 clues and answers were published on Sun 15 Jan 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3978 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Once again, sketches vermillion vessels? : REDRAFTS
5-across – Needing no introduction, criticises remains : ASHES
9-across – Poet’s socially acceptable, did you say? : DONNE
10-across – Primarily sparse and neat style, spurning excess rococo in fonts? : SANSSERIF
11-across – Pasta in Colombian ware needing preparation : ELBOWMACARONI
13-across – Verdant meadow frantically evacuated : LEAFY
14-across – Pretentious type recalled the writer’s name: old George Eliot? : PSEUDONYM
15-across – Soaks took a stool, perhaps getting university prices : SATURATES
17-across – What might be represented as ‘Anticipating bits of my advice, do good’? : DOGMA
18-across – Entertaining soldiers, comically take up arms in recreational venue : AMUSEMENTPARK
21-across – Pursue Ms. Beauregarde with scentless flower : DOGVIOLET
22-across – Keen-eyed one seeing golfer’s achievement : EAGLE
23-across – Detective given largely small piece of food : MORSE
24-across – Reconstituted rat’s skin and tongue : SANSKRIT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Lacking direction, run like a bull? : RUDDERLESS
2-down – ‘Stay in touch, fellow tense and savage forest warden’ : DONTBEASTRANGER
3-down – Consumed a fish supper, maybe without a fork in the end : ATEAWAY
4-down – Engineer making contribution to Mariotte’s law : TESLA
5-down – To scuttle away is part of crabs’ conditioning : ABSCOND
6-down – Disrupting genre, arming hero, one with magical powers : HERMIONEGRANGER
7-down – On foot, very quietly : SOFT
8-down – Those who move furtively in sportswear : SNEAKERS
12-down – Emma, Ben and Kelvin rebuilt National Trust mound : EMBANKMENT
14-down – Parrot made to swallow tablet regularly, showing sign of overeating : POTBELLY
16-down – Pedestrian comic’s act : ROUTINE
17-down – Everyman, ultimately terrified, rises before the Royal Society in quaking fits : DITHERS
19-down – Run for one in the crowd? : EXTRA
20-down – First man’s Australian, flipping furious : ADAM
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.