This crossword No. 25282 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Mar 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25282 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Starting for club and a fight? About time! I’ll get you a taxi : CABTOUT
5-across – Bird of the quickest relative speed : KESTREL
9-across – Oratory fought fight, beat beast, missing bus at random : THEGIFTOFTHEGAB
10-across – Head of operations with a knowledge of wood : OAKEN
11-across – Half a pint? : SMALLBEER
12-across – Mexican actor on day one away from insurgent body : MONTALBAN
14-across – Poor quality drinking water in river : TATTY
15-across – Smith’s fake : FORGE
16-across – Grandma’s shot at milk producer : NANNYGOAT
18-across – React badly in a number of fruit : NECTARINE
21-across – Explorer’s name and number for unfinished course : VASCO
22-across – Auxiliaries inland, first to call : TERRITORIALARMY
23-across – Sea, it’s said, as religious article : CASPIAN
24-across – Changed agreement performed as reported : AMENDED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Copper couple with jolly caterpillar : CUTWORM
2-down – Doing better than before in destruction of 78s? : BREAKINGRECORDS
3-down – You get nothing for nothing in French pictures to align : ORIENTATE
4-down – Arch-emperor? : TITUS
5-down – Unofficial thumping for most of party in Ireland : KOFIANNAN
6-down – Where some African countries are off the leash : SAHEL
7-down – Teased Tory leader to provoke left-wing philanthropist : RAGGEDTROUSERED
8-down – Free range item cooked by litre : LIBERTY
13-down – Unofficial financiers, one body : BANKIMOON
14-down – Unofficial effort to prove missing one false? : TRYGVELIE
15-down – Cooler part of house, say, for extreme enthusiast : FANATIC
17-down – Couple looked unlike Cyclops : TWOEYED
19-down – A bit of 8 first line of defence : ALIBI
20-down – Life in Rome after English musical : EVITA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.