This crossword No. 25228 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Jan 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25228 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Power cross round back of defenders before clinical header : MUSCLE
4-across – King, perhaps, outlining an untrue story : CANARD
9-across – Night and Day was his food and drink : COLE
10-across – Cherry around thirteen miles? So inch out : MARASCHINO
11-across – Hand once named as brave : PAWNEE
12-across – Sick topless girl after a kiss on the armpit : AXILLARY
13-across – How long might one be expecting process to go, a president introducing one? : GESTATION
15-across – What’s designed to stabilise an Austrian state, right behind Libya, oddly : ANTI
16-across – Stop promotion : PLUG
17-across – Parrot catching, for example, the bowling strategy : LEGTHEORY
21-across – Dense food dry, a beer is drunk : RYEBREAD
22-across – By restricting flow, it keeps one dry : BROLLY
24-across – Two hundred failures, unfortunately very little entertainment : FLEACIRCUS
25-across – The father of pop? : ABBA
26-across – Old coins from Madrid I lost on the way back : SOLIDI
27-across – See 9 : PORTER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Parking fee causing madness in cows? : MOORAGE
2-down – Talk about a barbarian when 16 down with this mug! : STEIN
3-down – Unit of luminance, centre light seen in extremes of light : LAMBERT
5-down – Trouble seen under idiot: attack! : ASSAIL
6-down – One’s bald head at first appearing stupid, very pale on top : ASHBLONDE
7-down – One country starts to excavate, digging up old coins : DENARII
8-down – Having turned back, do seek run to get off the mark : BREAKONESDUCK
14-down – Miniature person getting from A to B in the end : THUMBNAIL
16-down – Girl’s ridiculous sauce, upside down : PHYLLIS
18-down – French shop stocking head of squid over duck sauce : TABASCO
19-down – See 15 : ROLLBAR
20-down – See 13 : PERIOD
23-down – Round component’s modern style : OPART
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.