This crossword No. 25701 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Jul 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25701 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Girl that has first date after three months : APRIL
10-across – Not able to learn? Can, in special course : CRETINOUS
11-across – New outcries agitated obsessive types : NEUROTICS
12-across – Did lie about it? Not ministers! : LAITY
13-across – Learner driver’s supporter holding one down : TRAINEE
15-across – Delay over a minute as bad speaker? : DEFAMER
17-across – Restrain third man outside hospital : CHAIN
18-across – Male leader of run-of-the-mill trio : TOM
20-across – I had isolated part of the UK, in a manner of speaking : IDIOM
22-across – More emotional, calling for attention in bank : TEARIER
25-across – Actual things, including good monarch’s trappings : REGALIA
26-across – Enclosure, a pound used for punishment : PENAL
27-across – States altered in 10, 11 and 12 other answers : COUNTRIES
30-across – Servant and I breaking some horses for East Europeans : ROMANIANS
31-across – Some party men expelled after backing the opposition : ENEMY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Pronouncement of rule that could stop play going on : RAIN
2-down – Excitement of captain rising around happy hour : BROUHAHA
3-down – It’s available from the Royal Society and from official sources, too : ALSO
4-down – Chance minimal change in New York, bringing in detectives : ACCIDENT
5-down – Quartet vying for contracts, top journalist reported : NEWSED
6-down – Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys? : AIRLIFTING
7-down – Element producing revulsion, added to sulphur : SODIUM
8-down – Like no ruddy appearance from a cast : ASHY
13-down – Understood that Araucaria’s clues involve trickery, primarily : TACIT
14-down – Friends are like this in novel, not otherwise : NONVIOLENT
16-down – Dance with drink for sailors one set up : RUMBA
19-down – Noble putting a king and queen in disarray : MARQUESS
21-down – I will bound across motorway at a bad moment : ILLTIMED
23-down – Addition to standard appellation chap put up in time : AGNAME
24-down – Covered anew, having studied outside class : RECLAD
26-down – Neat and clean : PURE
28-down – Piles of sand, originally, in river : TEES
29-down – For example, Southern states : SAYS
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.