This crossword No. 26235 clues and answers were published on Wed 16 Apr 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26235 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Composer of 23’s fine and private place, embracing a total reversal : THEAMUSGRAVE
8-across – City governed by thug : RANGOON
9-across – Heads of ulna and tibia extracted from beautiful broken bones : FIBULAE
11-across – Back of Alton Towers changing direction : NORWEST
12-across – Trendy — right-on at heart — yet enduring : CHRONIC
13-across – Last bit of face powder turned to striking effect : ECLAT
14-across – Dull paper about Hitler’s rewritten : MIRTHLESS
16-across – Highly influential, if admitted to part of penultimate round : SEMIFINAL
19-across – Poet finding way round Luxembourg : PLATH
21-across – Family member dropping head case : ELATIVE
23-across – Wonderland minus/plus poet? : MARVELL
24-across – Child, originally gentle, disturbed by lack of attention : NEGLECT
25-across – Shirt — 2 ÷ 1,000? : DASHIKI
26-across – A cur ill-disposed to get into festivity — more so than usual : PARTICULARLY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Shoot nurse with endless stream : TENDRIL
2-down – Caustic electronic mouse, maybe : ERODENT
3-down – Homunculus’s missile? : MINUTEMAN
4-down – Mystic cheerleader, albeit American, uplifted : SUFIC
5-down – Hour in which ethnic group rises for fresh start : REBIRTH
6-down – Fringe of troubled enclave : VALENCE
7-down – Honest genius ditching one misguided one? : FRANKENSTEIN
10-down – Flower arrangement of Eliza Doolittle’s second to be interrupted by school, twice : ESCHSCHOLZIA
15-down – Hero from Biblical kingdom : ROLEMODEL
17-down – Compiler’s seaweed absorbing compiler’s pain : MYALGIA
18-down – Snow White, say, is quick to suppress anger : FAIREST
19-down – Reader’s country home shortly erected : PERUSER
20-down – Spike Milligan initially standing in vote for something useful : AMENITY
22-down – Bluestocking’s secret weapon : ESTOC
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.