This crossword No. 26859 clues and answers were published on Fri 15 Apr 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26859 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Letter from Scotsman in POW camp returned : GALATIANS
8-across – An hour and two thirds to dress Posh Spice : CUMIN
9-across – Erotic dancing over seven month time period aiding childbirth : OBSTETRIC
10-across – It should be impossible to pick husband largely on chum’s tip : CHUBB
12-across – Ignore wife in labour, longing to be back in Scottish islands : ORKNEY
13-across – Cockney retained or kept old soap from the ’90s : ELDORADO
16-across – Antlers composed of bone : STERNAL
19-across – Taken aback by a boring legal document, one listing goods : WAYBILL
22-across – More 3 in job scene, reportedly : OBSCENER
25-across – One in pursuit of raw meat dish : CHILLI
27-across – Runs off and weds, unclothed and hungry : UNFED
28-across – Clue 9 as eccentric economist’s acolyte : KEYNESIAN
29-across – Run away from stiff brush : COPSE
30-across – Church loves to plug support for education : SCHOOLING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sheepish labourer, first to bathe in the sea at Calais : LAMBER
2-down – Perhaps catch nothing, upset about cricket practice : FASTENER
3-down – Despicable file they have finally redacted twice : FILTHY
4-down – Ban organisation over rackets involving drug and spirits : UNDINES
5-down – Source gold after gold filling falls out of tooth : AUTHOR
6-down – Partly believes in Badger, storybook hero! : SINBAD
11-down – Thought Gide gag no good at all : IDEA
14-down – Like inhaling air in northern French city : AMI
15-down – Cry for attention close to waterfall animated Olive : OYL
16-down – Anti-corruption agency as of now regularly failing : SFO
17-down – See 14 : ENS
18-down – Article read aloud for Queen : ANNE
20-down – Loveless lad is left confused and alone : BYITSELF
21-down – County evacuated after historic forest fire : ARDENCY
23-down – Judge supporting embargo on outsize instruments : BANJOS
24-down – Bottom of league in Cheshire and East Lancashire? : CHEESE
25-down – Pointless snooker shot from John Higgins’s sixth frame of Open : CANNON
26-down – Got to know sailors in leathers, half-cut : LEARNT
This crossword has in total 32 where 14 are across and 18 are down.