This crossword No. 4053 clues and answers were published on Sun 23 Jun 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 4053 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Short shabby detective – US – I went there! : COLUMBUS
5-across – English: scratching head, unable to qualify : ENABLE
9-across – Edward by island on sailboat, reversing at water’s edge : POOLSIDE
10-across – Awkward, grand and long – at the outset, uncle’s hosted : GAUCHE
11-across – Everyman is improperly described by two lines making damaging accusation : LIBEL
13-across – Squeeze a beauty, we’re told, to arouse memories : RINGABELL
15-across – Postpone unit’s dance and indoor game : TABLEFOOTBALL
17-across – Range of human inaction unsettling : MOUNTAINCHAIN
21-across – On track, bat’s simple stroke : DOGPADDLE
22-across – Nosy astronauts left : NASAL
23-across – Studious, tense and wimpish : TWEEDY
24-across – Swayed, being camp : AFFECTED
26-across – Once again despatched gift without slightest hint of provocation : RESENT
27-across – Suffers sea song I butchered : AGONISES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Feuding family’s pills laced with uranium : CAPULETS
2-down – ‘Animal star sign.’ ‘Chameleon?’ ‘Not entirely.’ : LEO
3-down – Brief moments with that French woman – and wine : MOSELLE
4-down – ‘Undecorated’? Right to get rise, as base layer’s been applied : UNDERCOATED
6-down – Amateur artist to capture rising waterfall : NIAGARA
7-down – Great amounts rain heavily on blokes protecting duck : BUCKETLOADS
8-down – In placid manner, pick six characters from seven lycanthropes : EVENLY
12-down – Ones drawing fictional pig? They appeal to the girls : BABEMAGNETS
14-down – What the absent-minded : NOTGIVEAFIG
16-down – Doesn’t leave out trendy crosswords’ building blocks: about 500! : INCLUDES
18-down – Upriver, glimpsed along Nile’s drainage area: national, primarily? : UGANDAN
19-down – Relate to sorrow : CONCERN
20-down – Literary figure found meandering in Detroit, mostly : EDITOR
25-down – Stoves regularly seen in sets : TVS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.