This crossword No. 25672 clues and answers were published on Tue 26 Jun 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25672 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Put in amount that’s to be coughed up : SPUTUM
5-across – Vegetable in general is sticky stuff : LEGUME
8-across – Being cross in polite fashion is an achievement : EXPLOIT
9-across – In police department a lot are backward, if forceful … : DYNAMIC
11-across – … with full authority half of police are deployed in jail : PLENIPOTENTIARY
12-across – Crossover door : ROOD
13-across – Choice of boats — but for the spelling! : WITCHCRAFT
17-across – Piglet, so it might appear, stops food going the wrong way : EPIGLOTTIS
18-across – Get in a twist about fuel? : COIL
20-across – Part of meal is mere cold sweet, something liable to perversion : COURSEOFJUSTICE
23-across – Attitude of one on benefit? : DOLEFUL
24-across – Aussie town detailed in its leaning uprights : ITALICS
25-across – It’s old — oddly unemotional : STOLID
26-across – German dramatist — rings a bell? : TOLLER
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Sausage Evita got in burst pipe : PEPPERONI
3-down – Global hotline? : TROPIC
4-down – The domestic, non-CE, might be this : METHODIST
5-down – Deposit English gold pieces : LODGE
6-down – Scientific study gets nice muddle : GENETICS
7-down – To a degree mother can be deadly : MAMBA
8-down – Ineligible for joining the green party? : EXPERIENCED
10-down – Cut glass collections that once ruled the waves? : CRYSTALSETS
14-down – Where trim ankle maybe sets one back a lot? : CLIPJOINT
15-down – Boeing aircraft once based down under? : ABORIGINE
16-down – Awful fuss with bill ends up happy : BLISSFUL
19-down – It’s very large to attack : ASSAIL
21-down – Single leading lady kept in the dark : UNLIT
22-down – Rejected overture, if not drunk : OILED
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.