This crossword No. 25210 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Jan 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25210 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Suspect reggae music taken to moon by American : DUBIOUS
5-across – Former stink journalist dug up : EXHUMED
9-across – See 23 : ANDRE
10-across – Learns off Messi shimmying round City back : MEMORISES
11-across – Eclipsing night sun Io, perhaps, as the day sun may be? : OUTSHINING
12-across – Setter’s setter’s working as a singer : PAUL
14-across – Number of fellows in place next to border with a soldier caught wearing women’s clothing? : PUFFTHEMAGIC
18-across – Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that! : STONEWALLING
21-across – Try to cut leader out : HEAR
22-across – Prostitute? Mine wears black, if welcoming guests : HOSPITABLE
25-across – King to rule as result of this pedestrian appearance by Queen? : WALKABOUT
26-across – Drug ring detective follows with some hesitation : OPIUM
27-across – Stupid me, this setter would say, looking like a deer : DOEEYED
28-across – A song to admire? : RESPECT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 14 : DRAGON
2-down – Lower classes coming into some money for bathroom items : BIDETS
3-down – Went past a rude hovel needing repair : OVERHAULED
4-down – See 12 : SIMON
5-down – Cheese plant he moved, having lost page after not quite finishing novel : EMMENTHAL
6-down – Mythical Greek character always in Aphrodite’s heart : HERO
7-down – Second beat in the Faces’ Wild Horses : MUSTANGS
8-down – Force out to find a home for plain-clothes policeman? : DISPLACE
13-down – Flowers coming out? One has stamina broken : EMANATIONS
15-down – Antioxidant from river in flood, iodine replacing oxygen : FLAVONOID
16-down – Shunned a bit of Wensleydale cheese cooked by daughter : ESCHEWED
17-down – Setting for 23, 12 and 24’s featured song from Python? Ah, Leeds! : HONAHLEE
19-down – See 24 : JBLIGE
20-down – Catherine hides hesitant expression, having married a frog : KERMIT
23-down – Need part transposed to right key for singer : PETER
24-down – Girl may be going out with a little jazz singer : MARY
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.