This crossword No. 24870 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Nov 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24870 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Step back taking in a rendition of My Favourite Things? Quite the opposite! : PETAVERSIONS
8-across – Criminal encouragement of a battle-axe : ABETTAL
9-across – Kelvin initially points out what blots one’s copybook : INKSPOT
11-across – Kelly becomes well-informed by following one who wrote nonsense : LEARNED
12-across – Pillar again sways back and partly falls : NIAGARA
13-across – Bush has to ring back about one … : LILAC
14-across – … possibly it rouses about five hundred aliens : OUTSIDERS
16-across – Continue being serious, trailing retreating agent … : PERSEVERE
19-across – … that is following South American girl : SUSIE
21-across – Measure creases made by clasps : ENFOLDS
23-across – Roman officer’s tune about the first wife’s origin : TRIBUNE
24-across – Sid won’t organise this on-the-spot protest : SITDOWN
25-across – Idle, broken by desert, becomes unstable : ERRATIC
26-across – Model airing frame : CLOTHESHORSE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Virginia, in terrible peril, is overcome : PREVAIL
2-down – Mammoth passenger liner : TITANIC
3-down – Loved cycling on city’s cycle track : VELODROME
4-down – Precipitation reported as a rule : REIGN
5-down – Popular vehicle activator say — as soldiers mostly are : INKHAKI
6-down – Not anywhere do we see one clap out of context : NOPLACE
7-down – Little trimmers! : NAILCLIPPERS
10-down – This conveyance enters France, oddly enough : TRANSFERENCE
15-down – The last one needed to make a score … : TWENTIETH
17-down – … later rising half full in denial : REFUTAL
18-down – For an actor, Denholm possibly helpful finally in toilet training : ELLIOTT
19-down – A troublemaker, but good at mixing : STIRRER
20-down – The bobbin is closed and then let out : SHUTTLE
22-down – Scenic mostly, but spoilt from then on : SINCE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.