This crossword No. 25554 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Feb 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25554 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Freak has the occasional party : ODDBALL
5-across – See 14 : NATIONS
10-across – Service block : MASS
11-across – Lean outlines a number of points, personal, in film location : TINSELTOWN
12-across – Characters representative of the 17 on trial, legs akimbo, as attendants off piste? : CHALET
13-across – Elgin having lost marbles, horse half gone, revealing habit : NEGLIGEE
14-across – Building is sensational pad, this 17 edifice : PALAISDES
16-across – See 12 : GIRLS
17-across – Second dark man, fool, laid back in embrace of the missus, as multitasker : SWISS
19-across – See 17 : ARMYKNIFE
23-across – Long-distance traveller *** cool! : STARSHIP
24-across – Barmy notice that may be 17? : CUCKOO
26-across – Reused manuscript most bleached, devils inscribed : PALIMPSEST
27-across – Noise primarily in boor — or boar? : OINK
28-across – 17 location in 17 centre for Italian sculptor : BERNINI
29-across – Difficulty with infusion of one’s own blood going this way and that : SNAKING
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Flip over king, say, and queen, perhaps on a now obsolete coin : DRACHMA
3-down – 17 place bottom on top of lap : BASEL
4-down – Contents of a pack including drink — that’s ironic, to say the least! : LITOTES
6-down – In time sell short — or pay back : AVENGE
7-down – Gut feeling it’s how teachers make money? : INTUITION
8-down – Roosevelt’s initiatives exposed something slippery, by the sound of it : NEWDEAL
9-down – Constant return generated a little money to feed one side of Manchester : UNINTERRUPTED
15-down – No one with hair on end underwrites a claim : ASSERTION
18-down – Power demonstrated by a hollow tyrant cutting pay : WATTAGE
20-down – Mexican state currency protecting the queen, say : YUCATAN
21-down – Disapprove of loud argument over French veto : FROWNON
22-down – Feature about work, one of his taking a minute? : CHOPIN
25-down – See 24 : CLOCK
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.