This crossword No. 25338 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Jun 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25338 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – A flower came up : AROSE
10-across – Unstable rate set by comparatively stable official : TREASURER
11-across – Out on a limb in Linnaean terms, maybe : BINOMINAL
12-across – Winner wasted expensive drinks on woman : AGNES
13-across – Unflagging vigour provides way to get a bird : STAMINA
15-across – Tie knot round flimsy curtains drawn back in theatreland : WESTEND
17-across – Cancel periodical, having cut out one of its articles : ANNUL
18-across – Homeric ejaculation evinced by carrier’s return : DOH
20-across – What to do at the Oscars — read e-book backwards? : EMOTE
22-across – Chief among detectives turned desperate : DRASTIC
25-across – Officiant dropped one in church : MINSTER
26-across – Like judge’s robes to be disorderly : SOBER
27-across – Admit interrupting you once with directions to second home : TOWNHOUSE
30-across – Nappies in which to climb hills? : FIRSTGEAR
31-across – College getting family groups eviscerated : KINGS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Give birth to male in experimental site : LAMB
2-down – Public artwork formerly obliged to include headless horse : FOUNTAIN
3-down – Hunt up or pour down : TEEM
4-down – Celebrity scoring +500 is par for the course : STANDARD
5-down – Cut about an arm’s length and gain in tolerance : MELLOW
6-down – Fiddler getting actress in a whirl : ISAACSTERN
7-down – Eg Fortinbras’s charge — protecting Norway? : PRINCE
8-down – Monk’s head falling two places in planet’s insignia : ARMS
13-down – Pulls up the grass : SWARD
14-down – It’s my intention to recite without script : ILLITERATE
16-down – Tiresome introduction to drunken bum : DREAR
19-down – Catcall in store on the way back : HOMEWARD
21-down – Yields to Julian Clary and Lily Savage, perhaps? : OUTTURNS
23-down – Man given warning about boys : ALBERT
24-down – Saw, say, ship : CUTTER
26-down – Item of furniture as yet unfinished : SOFA
28-down – Agitate headless fish : HAKE
29-down – Promiscuous and, without question, a bit sick : EASY
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.