This crossword No. 25572 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Mar 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25572 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Gas, then talk back, as one full of hot air : WINDBAG
5-across – Great success? No sir : GOODWIN
9-across – Figure Spanish chap cut by a third after ending in gutter : RHOMB
10-across – Wood, say, behind runway, where everything will be revealed : STRIPCLUB
11-across – Source of misery more in order, like modern music? : OPIUMPOPPY
12-across – Right to be extracted from meat extract about a couple of litres with little insect : BOLL
14-across – Criminal went with ID, return guaranteed : UNDERWRITTEN
18-across – Gripping thing gathering in money, promotion for old actor : VINCENTPRICE
21-across – One unable to take off some banner headline : RHEA
22-across – Dry, like an imploded eyeball? : HUMOURLESS
25-across – With cheer ringing around, I’m inside for murder : ELIMINATE
26-across – Nabokov’s conclusion inscribed in a blank block : ANVIL
27-across – Slip back, last to slumber, not sound asleep : RELAPSE
28-across – Torturing leader, ritual appalling in name only : TITULAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Artist’s break from action? : WARHOL
2-down – Recess that is a lot of fun : NOOKIE
3-down – As Spooner might say, perhaps folder required for parents’ assistant : BABYMINDER
4-down – Device requiring doctrine to cut energy : GISMO
5-down – Fix up starter of pilau with reduced packaging. Spices strong with it? : GIRLPOWER
6-down – Ring, ring … there’s more to say: I’ve been careless! : OOPS
7-down – Seed sown, I was told, liberally? : WILDOATS
8-down – Turn in live organ for Wagnerian dwarf : NIBELUNG
13-down – Grating cheese at first, add tins or nuts : DISCORDANT
15-down – Following ten foolishly, we act thus with maturity? : ENTOURAGE
16-down – Catch where GIs were once on the radio? : OVERHEAR
17-down – Crocodile’s location, loosely speaking? Not accepting that! : INDENIAL
19-down – See 12 : WEEVIL
20-down – Stable chap stole pickled cucumber in the end : OSTLER
23-down – Open golf’s second green : OVERT
24-down – Wuss, political singer of Jerusalem : WIMP
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.