This crossword No. 4001 clues and answers were published on Sun 25 Jun 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 4001 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Street fight: Dutch doctor’s lost for words : STRUCKDUMB
6-across – Elephant seals, somewhat tiny creatures? : ANTS
9-across – According to Spooner, bargain: money for lingerie : GARTERBELT
10-across – So, fierce type’s in retreat : ERGO
12-across – Checking son’s in further education : RESTRAINING
15-across – Kindly: is the crossword setter displaying competence? : AMIABLY
16-across – In Yorkshire, the motive for sedition : TREASON
17-across – Ottoman ruler, a sweet little thing : SULTANA
19-across – Sibling, base and negative, sent back book : GENESIS
20-across – Look: handle smeared with blood : LOANDBEHOLD
23-across – Arrest Brad : NAIL
24-across – Police officer’s performance to cause concern : DISCONCERT
25-across – Gesture: a wave, did you say? : SIGN
26-across – Monthly magazine that’s set in the Napoleonic Wars : VANITYFAIR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Leaves, being wise : SAGE
2-down – Bloody sparse : RARE
3-down – Booze concocted by dry rancher : CHERRYBRANDY
4-down – Musician in bed, laid up. Demanding? Not at first : DEBUSSY
5-down – Spot a canary and a rodent : MOLERAT
7-down – Man’s crisis: awful vanity : NARCISSISM
8-down – Edits songs displaying tedium : STODGINESS
11-down – OK if Nan, Dan, Eddy becoming tormented : FINEANDDANDY
13-down – Figures denoting corporations’ growth? : WAISTLINES
14-down – Everyman’s on the up, succeeded, getting ahead? Not entirely accurate : MISLEADING
18-down – Land in Birmingham Eric acquired : AMERICA
19-down – Originally grainy nodules; often cheesy; cuisine’s highly Italian! : GNOCCHI
21-down – Product of Greece, regularly effectual : FETA
22-down – Luminary’s heavenly body : STAR
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.