This crossword No. 25087 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Aug 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25087 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Essential element of jam trade : TRAFFIC
5-across – Launch of biography : LIFTOFF
9-across – Label report of familiar ex-captain : GUCCI
10-across – Able to take part in sport, preserving body : COMPETENT
11-across – Night visitor with cash for discarded item of dining equipment : TOOTHFAIRY
12-across – Soften back massage, taking in middle of shoulders : BLUR
14-across – One wearing tailored tar strides, which are awful to get into : DIRESTRAITS
18-across – Scoff at Delhi’s odd, non-independent support for capital punishment : THESCAFFOLD
21-across – Goo: youngster swallows litre! : PULP
22-across – Bush given a life without need, tension and Henry : BLACKTHORN
25-across – Top of London Eye can’t, when revolving without energy/gas : ACETYLENE
26-across – Marie Stopes’s housing sign : ARIES
27-across – There’s nothing in waste, having lost US city : DETROIT
28-across – Nutty quality Dan introduced randomly into jam : MADNESS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Legless and short? They’re just the opposite : TIGHTS
2-down – Secure a job, almost : ANCHOR
3-down – Line in scrap, which might be cut for a cockpit : FLIGHTDECK
4-down – Doubly firm, top grade drink : COCOA
5-down – Scour rocks after meat and drink : LAMBRUSCO
6-down – Charge round opening of roof on the house : FREE
7-down – Produced too many eggs with a coating : OVERLAID
8-down – Visionary sporting tutu: first time away : FUTURIST
13-down – Plastic, offbeat, direct comedian : CREDITCARD
15-down – Almost sated inside, monarch’s stand-in is radiant : REFULGENT
16-down – Daughter, hit with much cash, backs dramatist : STOPPARD
17-down – Determined underworld criminal : HELLBENT
19-down – River rats patrol : POLICE
20-down – Number’s up is spiritual knowledge : GNOSIS
23-down – Finest 50,000 sheets of paper in modern terms : CREAM
24-down – A spinner’s short period in work : GYRO
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.