This crossword No. 26129 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Dec 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26129 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Long odds of tango and cha-cha foes dancing together : AGHOST
5-across – See 10 : THEMES
8-across – Awful, stumbling hag on dance programme missing trick, you say? : GHASTLY
9-across – Harass people involved in wrongdoing : TORMENT
11-across – Much to-do from zealotry at heart, on and on, using psychic powers on dead? : ALOTONONESPLATE
12-across – See 10 : SAGE
13-across – Communicate with those we miss, who bequeath £10? : LEAVEANOTE
17-across – It’s not vital to get tipsy from potion : OFNOIMPORT
18-across – Seance appears really inexplicable at first but, as you say, it’s a fabrication! : SARI
20-across – Blame the frost? He’s upset about a Xmas bloom : STAROFBETHLEHEM
23-across – Morse, perhaps, out in sound and vision : SPECTRE
24-across – Hollowly beatify dead souls? From the start, let them be : BYGONES
25-across – Phantoms from below, heralded by sulphur : SHADES
26-across – Number : ELEVEN
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – ’70s rock instrument used in Wales : GLAMORGAN
3-down – Perhaps put Boatman in work — a lot of it! : OPTION
4-down – Back pointless meeting: the man is after nothing? That’s a record : TRYTOHELP
5-down – It returns the part the Church keeps : TITHE
6-down – French perhaps sing solver’s one anthem : EUROPEAN
7-down – Irrigation for Zimbabwe at last: an answer to prayers sent up : ENEMA
8-down – Creepy ghoul eats beast, exploits socially unacceptable growth promoted here : GLASSHOUSES
10-down – Solver taking on psychic sees, as might appear hazily, the power of subliminal suggestion : THEMEDIUMIS
14-down – After victory, reconstruct : VERITABLE
15-down – See 1 : OFACHANCE
16-down – Presented headless first, it’s said, for the dead came back : RIPOSTED
19-down – Soaring mountain road missing from visitant’s haunt : PLAGUE
21-down – A historic drink at pub : ALEPH
22-down – Potions said to cause livid hue : BREWS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.