This crossword No. 25674 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Jun 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25674 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Eg Dull and Boring tunes oddly enthral women in drag : TWINTOWNS
6-across – An attempt at good showing of Patience? On the contrary : AGOG
10-across – Timeless tune of the French is intrusive and improper : UNDUE
11-across – When Times correspondents traditionally write piece by 20 : ONHEARING
12-across – Paper’s first critique of Eric and Ernie’s version of André : PREVIEW
13-across – Series put out about Schubert’s Fourth and put out again : REISSUE
14-across – Key change? Soprano isn’t prepared to accept it : TRANSPOSITION
17-across – Scoring northeast choir medley’s hard going : ORCHESTRATION
21-across – Overhear a Cherubini piece and suffer this? : EARACHE
22-across – Name working set of organ pipes without pausing : NONSTOP
24-across – Unrehearsed concert’s boring — I’m put off : IMPROMPTU
25-across – I’ve managed to pen overtures to Rigoletto and Don Carlos, he perhaps said : VERDI
26-across – Tchaikovsky’s pen was shaking at start of Nutcracker : SWAN
27-across – G&S recalled securing awfully bad deal for pannier : SADDLEBAG
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Brass behind in test broadcast : TRUMPETS
2-down – With nous this band could become unionised : INDIE
3-down – See 11 : THEFIRSTCUCKOO
4-down – Rock group show developed prominent list? : WHOSWHO
5-down – On radio avoids Iolanthe’s opening movements … : SCHERZI
7-down – … represented as sliding scales : GLISSANDI
8-down – Nothing, I guess, is too much for lively dances : GIGUES
9-down – Clarinets and viola 17 in Candide, say : SATIRICALNOVEL
15-down – Sacred books regularly occur in a happy 17 : APOCRYPHA
16-down – See 11 : INSPRING
18-down – Releases new MP3 : EXEMPTS
19-down – Note quintet mostly played close to the end : TENQUID
20-down – Composer’s wildly enthusiastic bypassing port : DELIUS
23-down – Beat by beat at the beginning : THROB
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.