This crossword No. 26092 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Oct 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26092 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – What tennis players may be doing in the forces : SERVING
5-across – Whacking hostile delivery at the Oval? : BUMPER
9-across – Swaggering, make better boxing punch first to last : COCKSURE
10-across – In old Rome I love retiring president, a low form of life : AMOEBA
12-across – Pat kindly covers up the foreign head’s negligence : CARELESSNESS
15-across – Remaining board members : OVERCOMMIT
17-across – Malicious utterance damaging leaders, perhaps : MUD
19-across – Endless row over nothing : NIL
20-across – All gibbons gathered in distant watering holes : BILLABONGS
22-across – Band of players celebrate after work for soloists curtailed : CONCERTPARTY
26-across – Unorthodox bishop with answer for society’s hatred : PHOBIA
27-across – Suggestive payment made to landlord in receipt of benefit : REDOLENT
28-across – Vinegary old hermit’s no saint : ACETIC
29-across – Rubbish written about church — editor fired : TORCHED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Demand for the whole nation to go in fun sports event! : SACK
2-down – See 1 : RACE
3-down – Fashionable carriage, for example : INSTANCE
4-down – Dynamic chaps with energy moving bush : GORSE
6-down – Bare man swimming in river : UNMASK
7-down – Promotion before commotion : PREFERMENT
8-down – Reformed characters in parishes do wax lyrical : RHAPSODISE
11-down – Cheerful servant good for morose leader : GENIAL
13-down – Trouble afoot — temperature’s cold in the Land of More Plenty : CORNUCOPIA
14-down – Purchasing power of earnings in Brazil? : REALINCOME
16-down – Doctor’s sobriety half-gone — either half : MOIETY
18-down – Crowd trouble on the rise after a cricketer’s shambles : ABATTOIR
21-down – Soldier guarding modern artist’s house, one of 12 : GEMINI
23-down – Watch chain not originally belonging on watch? : ALERT
24-down – Fringes of more stylish network : MESH
25-down – Film company dismissing one old boss : STUD
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.