This crossword No. 25494 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Dec 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25494 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – See 7 : REPUBLIC
9-across – Previously ending in disaster, a foreign market here? : AGORA
10-across – Party time, charge around : FETE
11-across – Little national insurance in advance, as ancient : BABYLONIAN
12-across – River filling drier gardening tool : TROWEL
14-across – Asian controlled borders for European : ROMANIAN
15-across – See 3 : ECONOMY
17-across – See 2 : STATION
20-across – Strain something to contend with, keeping solver’s end up : AIRBORNE
22-across – Bird’s fifty goals scored? : LINNET
23-across – A bird cutting dead duck’s head went this way, then that? : ALTERNATED
24-across – Queens here losing ground before gain : LONG
25-across – Hybrid and lakeside plant : NAKED
26-across – See 6 : CRESCENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Spectacular ego, heart lost in the system : METEORIC
2-down – Bank, say, most efficient at breaking out in depravity : TUBE
3-down – Worryingly precarious thing to package — Cameron’s party pessimistic about it : GLOBAL
4-down – Leaves cold? : ICEBERG
5-down – Sweet singer turning up to plug rubbish — this is flat : TABLEMAT
6-down – Fixed terms not concerning this 2 17 : MORNINGTON
7-down – Unstable state incapable, requiring urban development : BANANA
13-down – Those providing shelter from bats nipping unruly beard : WINDBREAKS
16-down – Steep incline, nearly always downhill for starters, horse on the outside : MARINADE
18-down – Oxygen and another gas, oxygen and another gas, energy individually matched : ONEONONE
19-down – See 4 : LETTUCE
21-down – See 24 across : ISLAND
22-down – See 25 : LADIES
24-down – Lap speed : LICK
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.