This crossword No. 24877 clues and answers were published on Tue 08 Dec 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24877 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Withdrawal from meeting about Ecuador : SECESSION
6-across – Figure dropping hot box, perhaps : TREE
8-across – Supposed spitter has trouble backing plant : CAMELLIA
9-across – Young girl, gripping one hand as difficult parting : WRENCH
10-across – Relative is irrelevant to discussion : SECOND
11-across – A shade off colour writing in French a Latin term : INFRADIG
12-across – Exact Page Three rule rejected : SPOTON
15-across – Chump steak, perhaps, served with loaf : MEATHEAD
16-across – Like brothers, getting on in gum tree : MONASTIC
19-across – Chap loading bullet, ultimately an assassin : HITMAN
21-across – Alsace girl learning to conserve water : LORRAINE
22-across – See 10 : COUSIN
24-across – Member of crew returns to book finally, having to revise : REWORK
25-across – Everything in America Whitehall echoed — an abomination! : THEWHOLE
26-across – Man on street in winter month needing retrieval after puncture, calling for AA? : FLAT
27-across – Plant given shower east of Bordeaux, say : REDPEPPER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Husband hugs husband, as men regularly do? : SHAVE
2-down – Smoke emerging from champion in bed : CHEROOT
3-down – United then top : SOLID
4-down – Poetic movement, where one little publication is minute : IMAGISM
5-down – Sudden announcement, as the latest figures initially taken in cut : NEWSFLASH
6-down – Inlet cut into feature above lip : THEWASH
7-down – See 25 : ENCHILADA
13-down – Page 100 in Othello amended for the current producer : PHOTOCELL
14-down – Pedant, one stealing mine from Spooner? : NITPICKER
17-down – JFK, perhaps, bearing left : AIRPORT
18-down – See 26 : CHESTED
20-down – Molest a little higher? : TOUCHUP
22-down – Island needing con to be real? : CRETE
23-down – Sloth offering some squirrel dinner, as sloth sleeps? : IDLER
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.