This crossword No. 26505 clues and answers were published on Thu 26 Feb 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26505 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Live on the edge : RESIDE
4-across – American soldiers grabbed by painting of biblical mount : ARARAT
9-across – Penfriend suffered anguish to win female? That’s ill-considered! : COBBLEDTOGETHER
10-across – Trace of rawness initially found in meat : STREAK
11-across – The Castilian comes into part of the story : RELATION
12-across – Coppers eat fish, endlessly showing good sense : PRUDENCE
14-across – Dashes to embrace live artist : RUBENS
15-across – Trades in plants : STOCKS
18-across – I can head out for estate : HACIENDA
21-across – Scholar to tamper with decaying plant : MARIGOLD
22-across – Stop a queen revealed to be dense : OPAQUE
24-across – After I find one, it becomes a mathematical process : DIFFERENTIATION
25-across – Sportsman gets umpire to write up in retrospect : GOLFER
26-across – Believe King Charles’s correct : CREDIT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Chicken roll has nothing in it : ROOSTER
2-down – Market carrying soft fur : SABLE
3-down – Cloth is enough for flesh and blood : DOESKIN
5-down – Soldier’s uniform : REGULAR
6-down – Two lists can be alternated : ROTATABLE
7-down – Restrain and draw swallow : TIEDOWN
8-down – Austere-sounding novelist : STERNE
13-down – Cute, if led astray, becoming two-faced : DECEITFUL
16-down – Hunting down Tory leader’s sport : TRACING
17-down – Officer in a rush to inflict punishment … : SCOURGE
18-down – … concealing punishment : HIDING
19-down – Crook finds Tories more encouraging : CROSIER
20-down – Expel director and spirit abroad : DRUMOUT
23-down – Cadet’s badly behaved : ACTED
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.