This crossword No. 4000 clues and answers were published on Sun 18 Jun 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 4000 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Casseroles, say, old and new, Vera smashed : OVENWARE
5-across – Weak shell of elegant mollusc : LIMPET
10-across – Girl crashed hot rod approaching end of motorway : DOROTHY
11-across – Catching a chance to speak : HEARING
12-across – To back her – that’s different : OTHER
13-across – Call for attention, receiving variable information about one health expert : HYGIENIST
14-across – In which Sun has special role diminished? : SOLARECLIPSE
18-across – Cool, American, ironic? ‘Not I!’, troubled Democrat’s interrupting : AIRCONDITION
21-across – Homes, easy to manage, son: about half a mile : DOMICILES
23-across – A Highlander in a cravat : ASCOT
24-across – Exercises including a part for one released from prison : PAROLEE
25-across – Alan’s beginning to get increasingly wide. Nothing’s consumed? That’s increasingly wise : ASTUTER
26-across – Songbirds steal in before onset of spring : ROBINS
27-across – Stacks by the German cranes : DERRICKS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – More than likely to give you a good run for your money? : ODDSON
2-down – Blue celestial body close to Mercury : EARTHY
3-down – Endless battle to secure first couple of points in game : WATERPOLO
4-down – Style of popular music? Butler had hymns playing : RHYTHMANDBLUES
6-down – Likeness, as Father Time might say : IMAGE
7-down – Picked up tonic, one for a woman : PHILIPPA
8-down – Continuously move up bound by rope? : TOGETHER
9-down – Film taking hour, for example, about a supermarket nearly breaking record : THEGREATESCAPE
15-down – Appear behind guard : LOOKAFTER
16-down – Primarily, spiky annual notoriously distributing seedcases. Painful underfoot? Rather! : SANDSPUR
17-down – Proper mixture of Brie and meat : PRIMERIB
19-down – Bill will have to call back for this kind of acid : ACETIC
20-down – Good man, having acquired skills, sets forth : STARTS
22-down – Pass fashionable man : COLIN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.