This crossword No. 26740 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Nov 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26740 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Symbol not beginning to draw into web : ENTANGLE
9-across – Break South American state holding one back : HIATUS
10-across – Cultivate cash carrier : TILL
11-across – Bird keeper’s cartel breaking wind : AUSTRINGER
12-across – Jump back, receiving Catholic item in post : PARCEL
14-across – Supposing Romeo’s turned in hidden treasure to sea dweller : STARFISH
15-across – Tom, perhaps, keeping sloths in discomfort : MALAISE
17-across – Slightly drunk, admitting copper’s an element : MERCURY
20-across – Involving transmutation of racy pigs? : SPAGYRIC
22-across – Root around books on summit : POTATO
23-across – Trendy grub was first to be garnished with mash : PULLEDPORK
24-across – New recruit to a country : CUBA
25-across – Something in wine bar turning brown outside : TANNIN
26-across – Endless vigour on horseback causing decay : GANGRENE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Woman prepared to rise, supporting popular uprising : INTIFADA
2-down – Pothead to be sick in bucket : PAIL
3-down – Climbing plant, climbing, snags good strip of skin : AGNAIL
4-down – Name-dropping spinster resolved to keep going : PERSIST
5-down – Want coast to receive label : SHORTAGE
6-down – Hymn to periodical pong curtailed by one sort of scanner : MAGNIFICAT
7-down – Pressure garment protecting centre of wound : DURESS
13-down – Swapped baby cherub in divinatory system — one’s gone missing : CHANGELING
16-down – Second deterrent, allegedly loud : STRIDENT
18-down – Ten Arabs affected by pesticide : RATSBANE
19-down – Tightwad’s self-esteem Tolkienian baddies lifted : SCROOGE
21-down – More than one friend securing draw, mostly : PLURAL
22-down – Dog keeps family from throwing up : PUKING
24-down – Bit of hair left to hound : CURL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.