This crossword No. 3986 clues and answers were published on Sun 12 Mar 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3986 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Gets around senior journalist’s ways of working : PROCEDURES
6-across – It brought back very loud disagreement : TIFF
9-across – Character in La Belle et la Bête? : CIRCUMFLEX
10-across – Fabulous captain seeing portent heading west : NEMO
11-across – Elder recites awfully locally sourced food? : REDLEICESTER
15-across – Duck without much flesh in coating of rillettes in French city : ORLEANS
16-across – Rodents: those who fetch and carry, we’re told : GOPHERS
17-across – Slightly edited thesis describing king’s sculpture : THEKISS
19-across – Perhaps the army chaplain delivers this? : SERVICE
20-across – Atingle, seeing French birds : GREENFINCHES
23-across – Everyman’s heading to find dingy venue where sinful behaviour occurred : EDEN
24-across – Start to battle cloud storage issue: that’s an idea : BRAINCHILD
25-across – Cinéaste describes this direction : EAST
26-across – Colonels’ superiors tidied up debris surrounding Latvian capital : BRIGADIERS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Speed of some spaceships : PACE
2-down – Announced time for you and me : OURS
3-down – Reckoning mountaineer will flail about : ENUMERATION
4-down – Emerges and … decreases? : UNFOLDS
5-down – Making plane when night approaches : EVENING
7-down – Regrettably intermixes as a last resort : INEXTREMIS
8-down – Flowery language suggesting waves : FLOURISHES
12-down – Felt professional : EXPERIENCED
13-down – Badly upset rogue state’s inhabitants : PORTUGUESE
14-down – Cold weather curtailed small elves’ dancing in type of clothing for summer : SLEEVELESS
18-down – Subversive spoon? : STIRRER
19-down – Plundering coarse cloth : SACKING
21-down – Sent up Arab leader’s old poem : RIME
22-down – Primarily inauspicious day, especially senatorially! : IDES
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.