This crossword No. 25813 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Dec 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25813 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Place and time can be very destructive : LOCUST
4-across – Bathe between Old English and American dramatised by … : OEDIPUS
9-across – … exponent of 11 28, cooking chop and fish outside : SOPHOCLES
10-across – Solver starts to think of Salad Days : YOUTH
11-across – Stink in government terminally spread like wildfire, with your first result of Euro-crisis … : GREEK
12-across – … some of which I spied, disguised as exponent of 11 28 : EURIPIDES
13-across – Insult that should not take one aback? : AFFRONT
15-across – Urge former partner to start gardening : EXHORT
17-across – Kidnap leader of society, of course : SNATCH
19-across – Buyer to pursue tenacious creature : BULLDOG
22-across – First among men making work of 27 : AGAMEMNON
24-across – North wind on north Scots town : NAIRN
26-across – Persian associate with a work of 12 : MEDEA
27-across – Cushy sale arranged by exponent of 11 28 : AESCHYLUS
28-across – See 11 : TRAGEDY
29-across – Nothing can replace extended play for making 4 across horrid : ODIOUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Pasta as possible anag of Los Angeles? : LASAGNA
2-down – Plantation of police, say : COPSE
3-down – Keep wine near Manchester : STOCKPORT
4-down – Terribly verbose remark : OBSERVE
5-down – Have no more to say? Use the tea towel : DRYUP
6-down – Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself : PLUNDERED
7-down – Split church and miss opportunity outside : SCHISM
8-down – First in the field : ELDEST
14-down – Sibelius’s forte, rendering of the year in Asian country : FINLANDIA
16-down – Chronicler taking time off in outbuilding : HOLINSHED
18-down – Country first in needing food : HUNGARY
19-down – Send away for backing in invading party : BANISH
20-down – Beginning and seeing off second : GENESIS
21-down – Burrower to supply weapon in test : MARMOT
23-down – Remove covering as before : ERASE
25-down – See where I go round house in cold climate : IGLOO
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.