This crossword No. 25236 clues and answers were published on Thu 03 Feb 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25236 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Hellish hovel has big guy losing footing : STYGIAN
5-across – Hole number dealing with bad habit : CREVICE
10-across – Austen’s letter to old signaller : EMMA
11-across – 28’s boy to give us the facts about the little gentleman from Paris : TELEMACHUS
12-across – Clothes with gold one of many to … : SUITOR
13-across – … write run away with me and forget 28 : PENELOPE
14-across – There’s still plenty of time for audience to Lady Gaga — years! : EARLYDAYS
16-across – Henry Cary, writer of 28 : JAMES
17-across – See 16 : JOYCE
19-across – Where lion and unicorn finished up encouraging car use? : OUTOFTOWN
23-across – Court affair broadcast continuously by writer of 28 : TENNYSON
24-across – Consent of some whose reports show barbarians : YAHOOS
26-across – War secrets disclosed that have pungent taste : WATERCRESS
27-across – Jane Russell’s version of 10 : MAME
28-across – Much of summer season not on, they say, for traveller : ULYSSES
29-across – Monster not reduced following fire? : HYDRANT
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Skill catching up with me coming up with fishy dish : TEMPURA
3-down – Admit 28 : GRANT
4-down – Wearing a tie that’s gone limp : ATTIRED
6-down – Traveller heard deer in large numbers : ROMANY
7-down – Unable to decide on house containing account books : VACILLANT
8-down – Bottom in semicircle to collapse : CRUMPLE
9-down – Potter story suffers cuts by being turned into comic strips : FLOPSYBUNNIES
15-down – One studying most of ancient Britons observes publicans : LICENSEES
18-down – In which commander-in-chief should be 4? : OVERALL
20-down – It’s about 28: say, is he queer? : ODYSSEY
21-down – Court rendered mad by New Forester : WOODMAN
22-down – Growing girl dropping to revolutionary spirit : PSYCHE
25-down – Pigeon for writer of 20 : HOMER
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.