This crossword No. 25219 clues and answers were published on Fri 14 Jan 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25219 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Old king putting drink back in lists of options : MENELAUS
9-across – Make king take rook, perhaps, then knight : CROWN
10-across – Hide from vicious king : SKIN
11-across – King of kings, many said foolishly, put on a little weight : OZYMANDIAS
12-across – King’s names for religious reformer : MARTIN
14-across – King at Hereford, in part to collect harvest : INGATHER
15-across – Some of our kings and English duke died in conflicts : EDWARDS
17-across – Court champion dined with king repeatedly : FEDERER
20-across – King, for example, and brave jester : FACECARD
22-across – See 12 : LUTHER
23-across – King who used rackets to secure a score of titles : BILLIEJEAN
24-across – Friend that puts king in hopeless position : MATE
25-across – Rabble without love for cruel king : HEROD
26-across – Celebrate about rise in king’s payment to serving man : SHILLING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Crewman holding all the cards? Just one person’s : DECKHAND
2-down – Cut when rewritten : HEWN
3-down – Primate includes a bishop in blessing : BABOON
4-down – As I say, somehow crossing river in ancient kingdom : ASSYRIA
5-down – Figure in plane caught in old muddle : OCTANGLE
6-down – Spy setter wandering in shopping area : BONDSTREET
7-down – Cover using precautionary phrase, in a word : INCASE
13-down – Representatives who should become less narrow-minded : TRAVELLERS
16-down – Awful deeds and situations offering no way out : DEADENDS
18-down – Sport needing extra time in later part of day : EVENTING
19-down – Inauspicious jingle? : ADVERSE
21-down – Land being consumed by fire : ALIGHT
22-down – Pulse is fast — over one-fifty : LENTIL
24-down – Part of Somalia or other country in Africa : MALI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.