This crossword No. 26332 clues and answers were published on Thu 07 Aug 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26332 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Quiet French writer recalled trees : SUMACHS
5-across – Person robs poor to make cut? : OSBORNE
9-across – Bed solicitor missing wife : LAYER
10-across – Thinks too much of Gove : OVERRATES
11-across – The split, without a majority, it could turn to red or blue : THERMOSTAT
12-across – Perhaps we give money to poor now? : PAWN
14-across – Drop off in calls after bank’s closure — protection for consumers rolled into these? : NAPKINRINGS
18-across – Act while describing series of holes in changes of policy : TURNAROUNDS
21-across – Hunt ignoring hospital patient : CASE
22-across – Fliers distributed; sheet contains mockery : PERSIFLAGE
25-across – Balls is mad near Pickles : MARINADES
26-across – Campaign entry : LOBBY
27-across – More poor in northeast, back on dole, have had it, right? : NEEDIER
28-across – Give up place: pile : LAYDOWN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Left shows contempt about cuts : SPLITS
2-down – Home secretary’s border chaos : MAYHEM
3-down – Formal lie — Cameron after Labour : CEREMONIAL
4-down – See 12 : SHOPS
5-down – Start to squeeze proportion working : OPERATION
6-down – Writer cut Boris off : BIRO
7-down – Focuses on leading schools again : RETRAINS
8-down – Sick feeling question avoided, it’s simple : EASINESS
13-down – Time to deteriorate? Quite, in a way that might be naïve : TRUSTFULLY
15-down – Supplies spin round seller in US : PROVENDER
16-down – US warehouse guy and soldier after part for gun : STOCKMAN
17-down – Can head to pound store : PRESERVE
19-down – It might make polls, we hear? Con: missing last three : BAMBOO
20-down – Clarke perhaps backing a vote against African : KENYAN
23-down – Warsi’s allowed house plant : SISAL
24-down – Lord’s letters, partly 14 : INRI
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.