This crossword No. 16535 clues and answers were published on Fri 05 May 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 16535 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Not that attractive — optional in gin : NOOILPAINTING
8-across – Remain : STAY
9-across – Heating device : RADIATOR
10-across – Fruit-filled sweetened pastry from Lancashire : ECCLESCAKE
12-across – Young woman : DAMSEL
14-across – Intellectual — scientist : BOFFIN
15-across – 1976 Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro : TAXIDRIVER
19-across – Insinuation, often of a malicious nature : INNUENDO
20-across – Perfectly : TOAT
21-across – CD and XL, for example : ROMANNUMERALS
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Eye expert : OPTICIAN
3-down – Pastoral poem : IDYLL
4-down – Reading carefully : PERUSAL
5-down – Code word for I : INDIA
6-down – Cockney thief? : TEALEAF
7-down – Interior angle formed by two walls meeting : NOOK
11-down – Computer security system : FIREWALL
13-down – Seedless citrus fruit : SATSUMA
14-down – Boudoir : BEDROOM
16-down – Colourless odourless gas, Xe : XENON
17-down – Milan’s other footballers : INTER
18-down – Remarkable : UNCO
This crossword has in total 22 where 10 are across and 12 are down.