This crossword No. 25171 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Nov 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25171 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Two bits won’t start to get you a musical instrument : TOMTOM
4-across – Fly to Suez regularly? Do! : TSETSE
9-across – Blair debonairly relaxed in academic institution : BODLEIANLIBRARY
10-across – Petty Officer First Class : BOSNIA
11-across – Clever fellow’s concealed supporter? : BRAINBOX
12-across – Go through Lampeter, heading away, going off east : PERMEATE
14-across – Shaun stripped, then went ahead and pulled : HAULED
15-across – American teen hacked into newsgroups : USENET
18-across – Smelling a rat, old spymaster suppressed then rejected CIA brief : AROMATIC
21-across – In short, it’s no country for the many : NUMEROUS
22-across – 4 thus gives us our instruction to leave : EFFOFF
24-across – I sit and chop nuts, hungry, marginalised and unworldly : UNSOPHISTICATED
25-across – Villains vandalise van, kindly keeping back contents : KNAVES
26-across – High-class carbon steel alloy : SELECT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Anything northern upset a certain small group : TWOSOME
2-down – Look, chaps — round, juicy fruit! : MELON
3-down – Coral Island is good; Home and Away ultimately isn’t : OKINAWA
5-down – Leaves wasp in a cheese sandwich : SPINACH
6-down – Sadly Australian team’s leader is missing extraordinary spinner : TARANTULA
7-down – Drug to reverse progress of Ebola virus essentially saved part of body : EARLOBE
8-down – Third of blue-collar labour force disheartened and lacking opportunity : UNABLE
13-down – State nominates liberal : MINNESOTA
16-down – Soviet revolutionary family has sex in a revolutionary way : SPUTNIK
17-down – You once held mythical creature’s foot : TROCHEE
18-down – Provide backing for top guitar player : ASSIST
19-down – Former love, born female, male on the inside : ONETIME
20-down – Student swallowed poison to put an end to it : INFLECT
23-down – Hostility to English eccentric : FLAKE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.