This crossword No. 4020 clues and answers were published on Sun 05 Nov 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 4020 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Curtail relaxation that includes brief prank : RESTRICT
5-across – Wholesaler offloading dodgy sole; I’m seeking something more substantial : WHALER
10-across – Cold blast, heading off for hot buttered food? : CRUMPET
11-across – 24/7 drama, two Poles given crown : NONSTOP
12-across – Weariness concerning, you and I said : ENNUI
13-across – No, outlive inferior – as part of this? : EVOLUTION
14-across – In recompense, arranged for attendance everywhere : OMNIPRESENCE
18-across – Latest: nephew that is detained by nuns for causing trouble : INCONVENIENT
21-across – Implausibly cheers up touring large tomb : SEPULCHRE
23-across – Lost in fantasies regularly, abstracted at first : ATSEA
24-across – To some extent, fear a cheesy auricular annoyance : EARACHE
25-across – Volunteering work repeatedly trendy: good : OPINING
26-across – Starters of niçoises: endives cored, stale, curl up : NESTLE
27-across – Hide, hold back, becoming more emaciated : SKINNIER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Leaves, getting reprimand : ROCKET
2-down – Turns down incentives including bit of nepotism : SPURNS
3-down – Resort with Everyman, from the outset, nagging people to fix things : REPAIRMEN
4-down – ‘We’re N.I.C.E. Health questionable? Exercise!’ : CATHERINEWHEEL
6-down – Believer in growth industries, partly : HINDU
7-down – Lazy type rising, transfixed by a TV showing foreign nationals : LATVIANS
8-down – Regretted sports lesson having torn around centre field in the end : REPENTED
9-down – One that’ll go off, but won’t hit the roof? : INDOORFIREWORK
15-down – Impression is a success : SENSATION
16-down – Physicist in 90s, sprightly : EINSTEIN
17-down – Staves conferred extremely piously to represent elevated status, primarily? : SCEPTRES
19-down – Anglo-Saxon meeting with keen Spanish affirmation in old Italian town : ASSISI
20-down – Car, old sausage : BANGER
22-down – This describes something healthier in the pub : LOCAL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.