This crossword No. 16318 clues and answers were published on Thu 25 Aug 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 16318 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Combine into one : CONSOLIDATE
9-across – Priestley’s 1945 play about such a person who calls : INSPECTOR
10-across – Conducted : LED
11-across – Complete range : GAMUT
13-across – The Faerie Queene poet : SPENSER
14-across – Vent : OUTLET
15-across – Pull out : CRYOFF
18-across – Make high-pitched sounds : CHIRRUP
20-across – Theatre entrance area : FOYER
21-across – Spoil : MAR
22-across – Orange-flavoured liqueur : COINTREAU
24-across – Influential English furniture maker, d. 1779 : CHIPPENDALE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Military or medical activities : OPS
3-down – Ghostly : SPECTRE
4-down – Most up to date : LATEST
5-down – Musical lament : DIRGE
6-down – Improbable tale : TALLSTORY
7-down – The end of time — mocking mode : KINGDOMCOME
8-down – Smelly : ODORIFEROUS
12-down – Female family head : MATRIARCH
16-down – Proved to be wrong : REFUTED
17-down – Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four ‘Rabbit’ novels, d. 2009 : UPDIKE
19-down – Summarise briefly : RECAP
23-down – Extension at right angles to the end of a building : ELL
This crossword has in total 24 where 12 are across and 12 are down.