This crossword No. 25657 clues and answers were published on Fri 08 Jun 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25657 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Use phone, say, erratically outside to get shrub : SYRINGA
5-across – Second that is to say shut up : STOWIT
9-across – Doctor’s round is an irrational thing: it has to be depressing : DISPIRIT
10-across – Funny fellow finds waterfall a tonic : WEIRDO
12-across – Top of plant needs shade — uphill struggle for 24 21 : PHILADELPHUS
15-across – Looking straight at English graduate that comes in crying : EYEBALLING
17-across – Window leaves producer on the coast : BAY
19-across – Leaves producer with party : TEA
20-across – Male moved 19 set to give passenger support : BUCKETSEAT
22-across – Safe merchants with theatrical personality : PETERSELLERS
26-across – 16 girl doing Hamlet outside pub : DAPHNE
27-across – Blessing covering misguided mule is a rare occurrence : BLUEMOON
28-across – Pirate team gets the beef : SILVER
29-across – Capital to blow on a railway with a heart : CONAKRY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 28 : SIDE
2-down – Promising 19? : ROSY
3-down – Terminus with new beginning receives hammer blow : NAILHEAD
4-down – Alleged receiver of waves from The Tempest : ARIEL
6-down – Choirboy choirboy choirboy? : TREBLE
7-down – Benedictine house fit to house such as Liszt : WORTHABBEY
8-down – Turned to heaven, embraced by commonplace leftist : TROTSKYITE
11-down – Good little boy’s king of the Baltic : GDANSK
13-down – Gives up about pet in trouble from bugs : CENTIPEDES
14-down – Delivers up comedian to port : SEVASTOPOL
16-down – Hardy companion shrub for 17 : LAUREL
18-down – Way to spur progress of fish : STURGEON
21-down – See 24 : ORANGE
23-down – Use phone keeping one back for 1 across : LILAC
24-down – Incorrectly 1 across — come good briefly and incorrectly about holy book : MOCK
25-down – Nothing but inversion of French city : ONLY
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.