This crossword No. 26272 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 May 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26272 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Was careful with sack full of duke’s letters about love : LOOKEDOUT
10-across – Meat dish made by adding sweet lolly : BREAD
11-across – Note strange reflection of artwork on wall : MURAL
12-across – Gobstopper in a mess, with bits of rock on ground : GRAVELLED
13-across – Corrupt brief charged with drugs handout : FREEBIE
14-across – Sweet-loving six-footer : FONDANT
17-across – No small islands around old port : OSTIA
19-across – School has not one device to download or upload, even : POD
20-across – What’s left, if I leave cold sweet? : CANDY
21-across – Keen to go wild, drink and party : KNEESUP
22-across – Empty sweet nothings by yard without showing any feeling : STONILY
24-across – Sweet : WATERSHED
26-across – Where to put degrees for a dog: at the start? : ONSET
28-across – Enough maple fudge? : AMPLE
29-across – Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets : PASTILLES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Type of rock, typically sweet : GLAM
2-down – Definitely short and sweet, perhaps : COURSE
3-down – Spooner’s paunch over his trousers from sweets : JELLYBEANS
4-down – Secretly sweet on guest speaker : TONGUE
5-down – Shot at in road by airmen, hit by metal and died : STRAFFED
6-down – Boatman left sweetheart empowered : ABLE
7-down – No right to release disc by one trendy and smart : FEELPAIN
8-down – Had variable depth of focus, quick to change : ADHD
13-down – Sweet on little woman in dress : FROCK
15-down – Beneath name, corpse treated with oil found here : NECROPOLIS
16-down – Sweetly fragrant solver’s on top of Boatman : THYMY
18-down – Superior branches of stores are not quiet: after indulgence, they say : TREETOPS
19-down – Hurries on short trips to uncle’s premises : POPSHOPS
22-down – One who likes to see suffering solvers, a devilish invention scrambling their heads : SADIST
23-down – Nasty lesion found beneath foot : INSOLE
24-down – What makes you blue and sorrow’d, say? : WOAD
25-down – Regrets controls, a Liberal gone astray : RUES
27-down – Humbug is licked into shape here : TOSH
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.