This crossword No. 25440 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Sep 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25440 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Whale — something inclined to break wind when tail cut off : GRAMPUS
5-across – Racket’s centre starts to buckle under bombardment : HUBBUB
9-across – See 18 : ICECREAM
10-across – Having to live with hump, a whale : BELUGA
12-across – Melange of Entrails is OK as meat dish : SIRLOINSTEAK
15-across – Bathroom items showing bum a lot : SPONGEBAGS
17-across – Dreadful situation for mechanics? : THE
19-across – See 18 : EGG
20-across – Hostile sun a planet goes round : UNPLEASANT
22-across – Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance : PERPETUATION
26-across – Until now there’s little rotating through something nailed on one’s foot : TODATE
27-across – Feminist hiding as one gets more slimy : GREASIER
28-across – Mind chap’s lesson read out? : SHRINK
29-across – Reserve accommodation for animals, by the way : MODESTY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sand in guts : GRIT
2-down – See 25 : AREA
3-down – See 4 : PORRIDGE
4-down – 21 7’s creation, time which goes slowly? : SNAIL
6-down – Hard then to appear nervous? : UNEASY
7-down – See 21 : BLUMENTHAL
8-down – Medieval killer ordered city to restrain miss, due to be disembowelled : BLACKDEATH
11-down – Roman writer’s watch going round end of finger : VIRGIL
13-down – Those such as 11 up in swear words, manipulating people : OSTEOPATHS
14-down – US horseman hurried off to grab first of guns after uprising in Oregon : ROUGHRIDER
16-down – Peak time, touring university, for 21’s work : BENHUR
18-down – 21 7’s creation concerned with magic, a nonsense to eat say : BACONAND
21-down – Menus on the table virtually absurd, into hysterical extremes — is he? : HESTON
23-down – Rhythmic sound heard initially in jazz performer, pet scarpering : THRUM
24-down – See 17 : PITS
25-down – Part of hippo, perhaps, revealing woolly patch? : GREY
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.