This crossword No. 3993 clues and answers were published on Sun 30 Apr 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3993 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Mariners with beers for each: they try to move stuff : SALESMEN
5-across – Grotesque, having caught drunken expostulation : GOTHIC
10-across – Say the thing : ARTICLE
11-across – Land crumbling into sea : ESTONIA
12-across – With energy, canter and get hitched on the run : ELOPE
13-across – Second lag : GETBEHIND
14-across – Focus, as this may provide you with drink : CONCENTRATE
18-across – Scare away Ed Balls, showing aromatic ingredient : CARAWAYSEED
21-across – ‘All-star’ assortment that includes Everyman: sense a problem? : SMELLARAT
23-across – Grasses often seen adjacent to violas etc? : REEDS
24-across – Part of boat for rowing, or, we’re told, one found on canal : OARLOCK
25-across – Aggravated, annoyed? It’s innocuous : ANODYNE
26-across – Bar that will prove attractive? : MAGNET
27-across – Belittled as ‘average’, puncturing performance : DEMEANED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Being held up, goes over what creates a gap : SPACER
2-down – Cleansing substance’s left unopened, ‘magical concoction’ : LOTION
3-down – South American with reputation: bully that you can’t criticise : SACREDCOW
4-down – Back-up for safety can be key when involved with merger : EMERGENCYBRAKE
6-down – Some accoutrements being de trop : OUTRE
7-down – Disadvantage: partial hitch, and I capitulate : HANDICAP
8-down – Crime novelist who may provide illumination? : CHANDLER
9-down – ‘Allow the flesh to congeal’? Notoriously callous pronouncement : LETTHEMEATCAKE
15-down – Patriotic icon loudly started to consume a wine served chilled : TUDORROSE
16-down – Primarily inclement, chilly – even Siberian – tempest, often restricting mobility? : ICESTORM
17-down – Forest creature and ferret go wild : TREEFROG
19-down – East African knowledge certainly not heading north : KENYAN
20-down – Rise like condor to begin with, then halt : ASCEND
22-down – Shapeless, abandoned : LOOSE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.