This crossword No. 26719 clues and answers were published on Tue 03 Nov 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26719 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Fundamentally change tune and dare to get jazzy : DENATURE
9-across – Butt in reproachfully : ROACH
10-across – Part of orchestra lacking right instrument : BASS
11-across – Nuts ground in big machine : LOCOMOTIVE
12-across – Like a chestnut horse brought in to lad for grooming : OLDHAT
14-across – They pass quickly, with record time crossing border : EPHEMERA
16-across – Artist cut receding hair : POLLOCK
18-across – Intelligentsia urge religious celebration : EGGMASS
21-across – Neighbour of Oxford tutor found by a search engine : ABINGDON
23-across – Person wanting compensation about fashionable label for mug : SUCKER
24-across – School with hippy founders ditching conservative belief system : PHILOSOPHY
26-across – Thematic accompaniment is cold and hot : CHIP
27-across – Back country without hospital? 9, 10 and 11 other answers might make it : SHOAL
28-across – Delicate present wrapped by Roman and others : ETHEREAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Al Gore is amazing for wives and girlfriends : SERAGLIO
2-down – What the Sun produces is reporter’s ruin : RAYS
3-down – Ponder extremely elegant hairdo : MULLET
4-down – Foreign parents embracing companion in bars where birds are found : PERCHES
5-down – Primarily despondent spirit for one getting beaten : DRUM
6-down – Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment : PANTOMIMIC
7-down – Boy’s mum to swear : SHAVER
13-down – Gripping action as prince and heir admits following Charles’s mistress endlessly : HALFNELSON
15-down – Witch’s laugh before midnight? : HAG
17-down – Sham complaint Liberal’s dropped : COD
19-down – Comic writer’s novel managed to skirt round primitive urges : SHERIDAN
20-down – Game for every paparazzo : SNAPPER
22-down – Ambassador’s to be dressed in cream — and that’s an order : BEHEST
23-down – Loudly show irritation with article that’s cut : SCYTHE
25-down – Exclusive story’s beginning to get approval in Spain : SOLE
26-down – Pick holes in garment with a run in it : CARP
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.