This crossword No. 25189 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Dec 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25189 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Tudor’s defeat by Gloucester? : STROUD
5-across – Cryptographer keeps caliph to say what’s right : MORALISE
9-across – Lawbreaker in the beginning becomes stout fellow : STALWART
10-across – 25 22’s sheep have room : JACOBS
11-across – See 23 : TERN
12-across – Female poet holds small boy back from ground elder : HERBGERARD
13-across – Medicine from tree manufactured in small limousine : NIMOIL
14-across – 25 22’s married woman gets permit in time : DALLOWAY
16-across – 25 22’s time to cut birds : THEWAVES
19-across – Boy that’s scruffy and prickly : URCHIN
21-across – Thora’s pupil in promise to be developed : THIRDWORLD
23-across – Wood strip makes bird a slut : SLAT
24-across – DJ produces poem with tenth note reversed : TUXEDO
25-across – State what beast sounds like whose fearfulness has been questioned : VIRGINIA
26-across – Ringer to turn into mad fly — I can’t take any more! : BELLYFUL
27-across – In the course of … of the French and German cycle : DURING
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – 25 22’s child pupil in stature to accommodate : TOTHELIGHTHOUSE
3-down – 25 22’s golden country with love : ORLANDO
4-down – Ballet master, fat in face, taking two fifths : DIAGHILEV
5-down – Crazy about true reform that’s now ready : MATURED
6-down – Change concerned with dance : REJIG
7-down – See what should be on plate by agreement : LOCARNO
8-down – See what’s making the countryside rot in a bus twice : SUBURBANISATION
15-down – As corollary, journalist over American city dealt with clothes or money : LAUNDERED
17-down – Frank batsman in misery about rights and lefts : WORRELL
18-down – Reduce silver work with hydrogen injection : SHRIVEL
20-down – Decommission the person with the money : CASHIER
22-down – See 25 : WOOLF
This crossword has in total 28 where 16 are across and 12 are down.