This crossword No. 26835 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 Mar 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26835 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Punch things : CLOBBER
5-across – Second before day’s end took a heartbeat : SYSTOLE
9-across – Netting first of three, expensive back scored : RATED
10-across – Tucking away feast, German mathematician demonstrating vulgar quality : GAUDINESS
11-across – Dig in order to find plant : FRITILLARY
12-across – Stop New York baseball team getting turned over : STEM
14-across – Pictures in sacred city detailed for spiritual healer : MEDICINEMAN
18-across – 14’s heavy African freight? : HIPPOCRATES
21-across – A couple in the end misbehaving, all kicking off : ITEM
22-across – Stress fracture acute, can’t move in conclusion : ACCENTUATE
25-across – Dutch heart and soul in continental islander : TASMANIAN
26-across – Item handed over a century after the onset of battle : BATON
27-across – Yellow fleece, layer upon layer? : CHICKEN
28-across – More than one current meeting I cancelled, conference closes during tour : TIDERIP
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – A service dividing the Church shows bottle : CARAFE
2-down – Get the better of the fool among us? That’s not right : OUTWIT
3-down – Morbid fascination ultimately ludicrous about low land in Cornwall : BODMINMOOR
4-down – August — that isn’t bitter, on the contrary : REGAL
5-down – Dinosaur slightly injured, shot : SQUARECUT
6-down – See 27 : SKIN
7-down – Extra work messed up, remove it : OVERTIME
8-down – Relief to chew over source of life : EASEMENT
13-down – Final entry in diary dated soon, Brexit primarily catastrophic : ANDSOTOBED
15-down – Leadership ends in power struggle, in a manner of speaking : DIRECTION
16-down – Following one god, jerk admits crime : THEISTIC
17-down – A child of the Fourth Estate endlessly partying in Zermatt, say? : APRESSKI
19-down – See 24 : MATTER
20-down – New brew in drink certainly secured : SEWNUP
23-down – Surrealist taking piece from pattern, striped : ERNST
24-down – Sinister affair that’s hypothetical : DARK
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.