This crossword No. 25222 clues and answers were published on Tue 18 Jan 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25222 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – US city’s coastal feature that is to be removed : SANDIEGO
9-across – Hate to stop short, grabbing husband : ABHOR
10-across – 4, so speeding 7 might be asked to? : PULL
11-across – Naughty boy flipping taking the biscuit, knocking off princess : SUGGESTIVE
12-across – Cold mountains so? : CHILLY
14-across – Larva takes my line, backing into weapon : ARMYWORM
15-across – Animal by River Thames, swimming : HAMSTER
17-across – Why suits should be returned after Paul’s puzzle : MYSTIFY
20-across – See 22 : CLARKSON
22-across – 4’s ill-fitting jeans, mockery left and right : JEREMY
23-across – Everyone’s drinking water protected by rural establishment — so don’t panic! : FALSEALARM
24-across – Good to block leaderless Conservative party with many members exposed? : ORGY
25-across – Iodine applied to sailors’ bones : TARSI
26-across – Brave revolutionary yearning to take Newcastle etc : CHEYENNE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Granny with degree overcoming president with spirit : BABUSHKA
2-down – I solve Paul ultimately to become hero : IDOL
3-down – 4’s island : JERSEY
4-down – 5th show? : TOPGEAR
5-down – 4’s blockage easy to deal with crossing motorway : JAMESMAY
6-down – With rotten apple full of weevils at first, it’s wet and foaming : WHITEWATER
7-down – Motorist’s club : DRIVER
13-down – Suggestion of salt in this without appeal? : LASTRESORT
16-down – Very happy to bring up the Church, still : ECSTATIC
18-down – Universal fighter in imaginative work, Asia’s missing pest controller : FUMIGANT
19-down – Early stages in thought : INFANCY
21-down – Shed sees crawler in Blair : LEANTO
22-down – 4’s flea? : JUMPER
24-down – See 10 : OVER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.