This crossword No. 26743 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 Dec 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26743 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Escape? Never! : GETAWAY
5-across – Wrong treatment — not the first to cause extreme suffering : TORTURE
9-across – Superior part of Oxford? : UPPER
10-across – Clapped out software program subsequently much admired : APPLAUDED
11-across – Top horse for an executive scout : HEADHUNTER
12-across – Endlessly stroke stomach : CRAW
14-across – Spooner’s rig fabricated for forward movement : PROGRESSION
18-across – Treat me with transplanted nerve tissue : WHITEMATTER
21-across – Adolescent right to leave wooden utensils : TEEN
22-across – Around the end of night shift, concierge becomes selfish : EGOCENTRIC
25-across – Clarify dodgy clue that’s holding a little back : ELUCIDATE
26-across – Muscle, a little thing in the ear : MIGHT
27-across – Get ready to stop mum’s bagpipes : MUSETTE
28-across – He runs down animal outside stall — tail sliced off : DECRIER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Call for quiet, say, being tactless : GAUCHE
2-down – Large tile exactly placed around edges of plinth : TOPHAT
3-down – Bicker over one dispatching a member of the flock : WORSHIPPER
4-down – Barney scratches head — terrible itch : YEARN
5-down – Classified status protects English constitution : TOPSECRET
6-down – Rise up behind parent : REAR
7-down – Corroborate where Nabokov placed comma? : UNDERPIN
8-down – Providing funds, though die in the red? : ENDOWING
13-down – Tremendous novel, so romantic : ASTRONOMIC
15-down – Pop round letter bearing oven bill inside : ORANGEADE
16-down – Firing squad place inventor in line : SWATTEAM
17-down – Salad ingredient or Spooner’s green nightmare? : PINENUTS
19-down – Good cook rehashes Italian starters for a spell : GRIGRI
20-down – Duck! A wheels’s worked free from the motorbike : SCOTER
23-down – Faith burned missing mat : CREED
24-down – Intimate clinch in TV part : HINT
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.