This crossword No. 26809 clues and answers were published on Wed 17 Feb 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26809 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Put on rack in custodial sentence : STRETCH
5-across – Seek answers amid 24 or 25 sheets : INQUIRE
10-across – Shakespeare’s dog Nipper? : CRAB
11-across – Force into modest car and get stranded : RUNAGROUND
12-across – Expected to come back into season, almost like medieval society : FEUDAL
13-across – Non-fliers, holding US wheel-protector back, honourably discharged : EMERITUS
14-across – Nameless 23 given high-tension illumination : STARLIGHT
16-across – Man with no time but lots of money? : MISER
17-across – Faux pas boss cut short : GAFFE
19-across – 7 squandered stand-in : BLUEBEARD
23-across – Agog about origin of Liver Bird : STARLING
24-across – Plough furrow backwards, becoming swollen : TURGID
26-across – Perfume for female Indian of rank holding an animal back : FRANGIPANI
27-across – Kick-start computer : BOOT
28-across – Outlay of former writer extracting Greek character from muse : EXPENSE
29-across – Go hither and thither with Shed and ’is missus? : MEANDER
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Anguish concealed by mentors? : TORMENT
3-down – Plant journalists — one of them receives honour : EMBED
4-down – Composer’s strings binding soldiers : CORELLI
6-down – Fanatic collecting what’s laid up in lump : NUGGET
7-down – In Mexico, druid, dropping boundaries, reconstructed 19, say : UXORICIDE
8-down – Neuro-doctor operated on Shakespeare’s Globe? : RONDURE
9-down – Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring : ENCEPHALOGRAM
15-down – Allusion to taste for decapitation? : REFERENCE
18-down – The Gaul gets to tear 6 apart : ASTERIX
20-down – Get into tangle stirring 10 drink : ENTWINE
21-down – Capital inwardly greeting Zambia’s rootstock : RHIZOME
22-down – Star teacher is going round university : SIRIUS
25-down – Endlessly dressing feathered friend : ROBIN
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.