This crossword No. 26840 clues and answers were published on Thu 24 Mar 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26840 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
5-across – Senior politician, disaster now with him after balls-up? : SHADOW
6-across – Author writing stuff about Swiss canton in war — God he’s extraordinary! : GEORGE
9-across – Duty I had to enter Fleet, say, as hired capitalist? : LONDON
10-across – Check hinge drops from above : RESTRAIN
11-across – March, some springtide month : DEMO
12-across – One in the printing trade yet to be embarrassed about page on the Sun? : TYPESETTER
13-across – See 6 : BERNARDSHAW
18-across – Pictures of a painfully seductive nature in flier : SANDMARTIN
21-across – See 9 : TAXI
22-across – See 5 : MINISTER
23-across – Human right to treasure little time : MORTAL
24-across – Bound to fill shot with it : TRENDY
25-across – That’s used for identifying theme song, perhaps? : SERIAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Big is beautiful : HANDSOME
2-down – Issue clear in the Bard’s work : SONNET
3-down – After an upset, bug gripping relative endures : PERSISTS
4-down – Case of disrepair right to bring up — that’s decay : DRYROT
5-down – Scum in bathroom unit : SHOWER
7-down – Breaking the name of the resigned Labour leadership, it changed : EDITED
8-down – Draft list to knock up in hunting target : PREPARATORY
14-down – A little current news not half fitting I would speculate, ultimately : NEAPTIDE
15-down – A substance injected perhaps, one shooting up? : ASTEROID
16-down – Red film screens all orange, initially : MAOIST
17-down – Brush skimmed off something in the soup : OXTAIL
19-down – See 9 : DRIVER
20-down – See 25 : NUMBER
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.