This crossword No. 3997 clues and answers were published on Sun 28 May 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3997 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Awfully spare: chaps refuse to be seen here : SCRAPHEAPS
6-across – Ring friend, wanting gemstone : OPAL
9-across – Sells cheaply what you may be left with after division : REMAINDERS
10-across – Vietnamese money’s sound as a bell : DONG
12-across – Daredevil aunt drove us crazy : ADVENTUROUS
15-across – Del Boy and kin needing no introduction: rogues : ROTTERS
16-across – Some giant iguanas somewhere in W. Indies : ANTIGUA
17-across – Fail to be seen in curly hairdo every day : PERDIEM
19-across – City to twice enthral Ronald : TORONTO
20-across – One proving there’s honour among thieves? : ROBBERBARON
23-across – Old tenor given note? On reflection, one that sings higher : ALTO
24-across – Unwise, raging lad is … devil : ILLADVISED
25-across – Drugs, they say for freedom from discomfort : EASE
26-across – Dunces Society intended to skip a test : ASSESSMENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Audibly rise, being angry : SORE
2-down – Premier, a Republican, going up slope : RAMP
3-down – Early parts of play: rôles include Victor, Amanda; they encounter – lucklessly, in vacation – Elyot, Sibyl! : PRIVATELIVES
4-down – Part of weekend I’ve spent finding salad : ENDIVES
5-down – I ran into quiet hall, not half finding ferocious type : PIRANHA
7-down – Master craving act of delaying : PROLONGING
8-down – Support Scotswoman to run: first minister? : LEGISLATOR
11-down – Blunt implements brandished, I subvert Kent : BUTTERKNIVES
13-down – Everyman, say: somebody conforming to convention : PROPERNAME
14-down – After a time, acts of praise for properties : ATTRIBUTES
18-down – Hi-tech devices, they’re often dangled over cots : MOBILES
19-down – Raw mayonnaise dressing : TARTARE
21-down – Is the French land entirely surrounded by water? : ISLE
22-down – Correct deadlifts at regular intervals : EDIT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.