This crossword No. 25404 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Aug 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25404 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Four-and-twenty blackbirds in sour cream! F-word recipe? : AMURDER
5-across – Puzzle is Boatman’s tale: love lost, embracing life at last : MYSTERY
10-across – Lover’s letters leave us emphatically with value and purpose : USES
11-across – Eponymous songbird suffered distress : TITLETRACK
12-across – He killed off a detective — not at all sinister : DEXTER
13-across – Detective’s first to remove uniform in US venture : ENDEAVOR
14-across – Swing, dead after coil set round sergeant’s head : OSCILLATE
16-across – Clash with faction leads to an end to shooting : CLANG
17-across – Detective left out of scrap : MORSE
19-across – Give a wide berth, taking a berth with a fish : SHUBUNKIN
23-across – Plans a scam involving the forgery : SCHEMATA
24-across – Got together with everyone in the club : MALLET
26-across – Location of shooting craps etc: no moral outrage? : MONTECARLO
27-across – War is wrong; peace begins with an end to shooting : WRAP
28-across – How to sit on bike: quick spin uses no force : ASTRIDE
29-across – Trap for attacker in fields of lost middle England : OFFSIDE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Men: those who give nothing away receive violent end : MISTERS
3-down – Restore state of sapper on location of shooting : RESET
4-down – Entrance hall rent collected, a pound off : ENTHRAL
6-down – Yard is led astray and gives up : YIELDS
7-down – Boatman’s cover is partial, unsurprisingly : TARPAULIN
8-down – Beast firm on sitting under overturned vehicle : RACCOON
9-down – Drama at no stage gives way over police search among some trees : STREETTHEATRE
15-down – Detective uses bug to catch copper with gold : INSPECTOR
18-down – See 1 : OFCROWS
20-down – Backstage sound effect for killing casually : BUMPOFF
21-down – Starting crisis in denial upset bankers’ host : ICELAND
22-down – Carried on with detectives in bad taste : RANCID
25-down – Exceptionally wise novice first to make sergeant : LEWIS
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.