This crossword No. 16550 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 May 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 16550 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Key used to delete the previous letter : BACKSPACE
8-across – Flaming __ , Frederic Leighton’s 1895 painting : JUNE
9-across – Promote : ADVERTISE
10-across – Therefore : THUS
13-across – Unemotional person : STOIC
15-across – Formula for making something : RECIPE
16-across – Kind of incentive? : CARROT
17-across – Flat bread eaten at Passover : MATZOH
19-across – Shuffling of a pack of cards : RIFFLE
20-across – Degree — grade : LEVEL
21-across – River running from the North Pennines to the North Sea : TEES
24-across – Stew : CASSEROLE
25-across – Clare Smyth or Heston Blumenthal? : CHEF
26-across – Tiresomely, over and over again : ADNAUSEAM
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Acquired immune deficiency syndrome : AIDS
3-down – German Baltic city, host each year to the world’s largest sailing event : KIEL
4-down – Little : PETITE
5-down – Inconceivably big : COSMIC
6-down – Skills needed to survive in a natural environment : BUSHCRAFT
7-down – Single-room accommodation : BEDSITTER
11-down – Cooked fowl’s lower joint : DRUMSTICK
12-down – Widely distributed : SCATTERED
13-down – What things are wound around : SPOOL
14-down – Raise trivial objections : CAVIL
18-down – Foreshadow : HERALD
19-down – Body of water that Moses parted when leading the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land : REDSEA
22-down – Guns : ARMS
23-down – Kind of circus performer? : FLEA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.