This crossword No. 25422 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Sep 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25422 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Bed lice make some noise : DECIBEL
5-across – FH for one making meringues, perhaps : WHISKER
9-across – Defence gets beast to leave : RAMPART
10-across – A model for an artist needing a drink : ATHIRST
11-across – River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps : ARCHDUCHY
12-across – Name for beast makin’ beer, do you hear? : BRUIN
13-across – Ploughing with lean horse? : TILTH
15-across – FH of computer operator accepting informal chat : MOUSTACHE
17-across – FH as conceit used by poet : SIDEBURNS
19-across – Rich man goes down rapidly : DIVES
22-across – In a cathedral a service requires concentration : LASER
23-across – Nothing new devised in poet or — mortgage company? : HOMEOWNER
25-across – Roman two with Latin twist to start with : INITIAL
26-across – Shaker near to Dickensian whose charity began abroad : JELLYBY
27-across – Period of The Caretaker? : REGENCY
28-across – R for Rebekah : REDHEAD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Beetle having married insect is sleeping : DORMANT
2-down – Funny fuel frames Rufus’s final full year : COMICAL
3-down – FH for 12 having died : BEARD
4-down – Trenet’s song about the heartless supermarket hasn’t been here long : LATECOMER
5-down – The Guardian has a line that isn’t fresh : WEARY
6-down – Restrained at home and didn’t show hurt inside : INHIBITED
7-down – He was beat and needed a cure all right : KEROUAC
8-down – Elevation of monarch about to join followers : RETINUE
14-down – Winter ate away Scot and Irish : HIBERNIAN
16-down – Great 12 using top of juggernaut as armour : URSAMAJOR
17-down – Sun to depart, right, traditionally without 3 : SOLDIER
18-down – Spirited gadabout swallowing bone : DASHING
20-down – 3 painter consigns vehicle to ditch : VANDYKE
21-down – Fiddle encompassing solvers went wrong : STRAYED
23-down – Something of Christmas left among the sacred : HOLLY
24-down – Worked without leader so that all should go smoothly? : OILED
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.