This crossword No. 25091 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Aug 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25091 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
4-across – Get weapon back first with gold piece : NUGGET
6-across – Barbarian with hairpiece chasing girl : HUNTRESS
9-across – So : WHATOF
10-across – Heartless church article on church in suspension : ABEYANCE
11-across – Junction in Crete dismantled without an oath : INTERCHANGE
15-across – Loud protest over soldiers, each with gifts, new or otherwise, posing the unanswerable question : HOWLONG
17-across – Painter, being poorly, put in months in Paris : MILLAIS
18-across – Tough about Circle Line appearing in films that back learning : SCHOLARSHIP
22-across – Borough’s best man should : HAVERING
23-across – See 21 : OFFICE
24-across – Time taken by a fast pressman with great ability : TALENTED
25-across – Born scoundrel to talk of footwear : BROGUE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Curtailment of overdue preparation to eat : DEVOUR
2-down – Veto on setter’s entry into parliament left ass, maybe, but not Balaam’s : DUMBANIMAL
3-down – Wish on departure for movement of sea to swamp Scots river : STAYWELL
4-down – Glen with fragments often shed by discovery : NEWLIGHT
5-down – Admit and confess on 8 : GRANTOWN
7-down – Bird of wilderness and loughs : ERNE
8-down – River round which to dance when consent’s arising : SPEY
12-down – Arbitrary and inconsiderate way to celebrate scoring a goal? : HIGHHANDED
13-down – You start with a warning, if I were you, to be a sport : YACHTING
14-down – See 15 : ISAPIECE
16-down – See 15 : OFSTRING
19-down – Make new arrangements about class : REFORM
20-down – See 9 : THAT
21-down – Where to play cricket when not skating in the White House : OVAL
This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.