This crossword No. 26821 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Mar 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26821 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Most of group left in care, causing local irritation : CARBUNCLE
6-across – Get to eat out with head of firm : FETCH
9-across – Advanced Guardian leader penned by a couple of journalists : EDGED
10-across – Union engaged in similar outlandish adherence to form : RITUALISM
11-across – Is rent scam their undoing? : MISCREANTS
12-across – No pressure to maintain large part of boat : KEEL
14-across – Perish in passage, a nasty way to die : GAROTTE
15-across – Play part on cross in cathedral? That’s right : EXACTLY
17-across – Good man churlishly giving up last dessert : STRUDEL
19-across – Too frank, essentially: he didn’t get a place : ALSORAN
20-across – Backward country’s government relinquished control : REIN
22-across – I lend an ear, desperate to get a booster : ADRENALINE
25-across – Post Office admitting stolen figure’s a facsimile : PHOTOSTAT
26-across – On reduction of toll, tenor went on a bender : KNELT
27-across – Jerseys may be kept here, we’re told, for customer : BUYER
28-across – The Parisian stopping goals needs cunning all the time : ENDLESSLY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Terrific comic, not second best : CREAM
2-down – Medic thrust end of stretcher into lift : REGISTRAR
3-down – Subject to schoolwork, he may get the chance to go on : UNDERSTUDY
4-down – Air coming up through middle buttonhole, perhaps : CORSAGE
5-down – Informally christen unbeliever heading off round Thailand : ENTITLE
6-down – KO said to cause fracture : FLAW
7-down – Ringer gets end of bell-rope in a tangle : TWINE
8-down – Like the Yeti greeting someone from further east? : HIMALAYAN
13-down – Decrepit sheep has to hobble : RAMSHACKLE
14-down – Elite eatery brought up posh wines in container : GASTROPUB
16-down – Fish first to sink to the bottom after time delay : TARDINESS
18-down – Unorthodox young lady’s announcement’s in character, almost : LADETTE
19-down – Vigilante extremists blocking rum trade warded off : AVERTED
21-down – Four lines written about ordinary 1 down : IVORY
23-down – Posh folk with no capital coming in : ENTRY
24-down – Excursion to game taken up : TOUR
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.