This crossword No. 26488 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Feb 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26488 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Crook who operates in Australian shed? : FLEECER
5-across – Bopping manual restriction : CUFFING
9-across – Hero Elsie had declared : ELCID
10-across – Wallpaper line spoilt curtains : LINCRUSTA
11-across – What might follow mock electric outlet spur : TURTLESOUP
12-across – Skirt backing, say, removed from sign : MINI
14-across – Relief rupture unit : SUBDIVISION
18-across – Wheels out awful modern artworks after one : AUTOMOBILES
21-across – Flower people not hippies, originally : IRIS
22-across – Swinging a putter in waste water? Keep going! : PERPETUATE
25-across – Tree associated with common colour : LIMEGREEN
26-across – Know instinctively time’s gone for the people : INUIT
27-across – Form of grape that’s bolted in short : CURRANT
28-across – Seaweed-draped motor home holiday area : ALGARVE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Contemptuous cries raised at carnival : FIESTA
2-down – Retailer disposing of capital — right time for company : ESCORT
3-down – Cold model used to be otherwise — nicely plump : CUDDLESOME
4-down – Levels subs etc : ROLLS
5-down – Bun in oven initially jarred when entering state of matrimony : CONNUBIAL
6-down – Doctor of climbing is cross : FORD
7-down – Where there’s proof to be determined, though not actually there : INSPIRIT
8-down – Bank to let, including sink : GRADIENT
13-down – Possibly the Big Bang fright isn’t over : FIRSTTHING
15-down – Stronghold of those believing fervently in the USA : BIBLEBELT
16-down – Swine sickly at a cold Gironde commune : CADILLAC
17-down – Temperature resistance in stew might be an aid for the gardener : STRIMMER
19-down – Animal keeper has no way to enter vessel : JAGUAR
20-down – Insect, source of sugar, having large enzyme openings : BEETLE
23-down – What makes English pop an endangered species? : PANDA
24-down – Granada’s offbeat and retiring as a city : AGRA
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.