This crossword No. 25669 clues and answers were published on Fri 22 Jun 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25669 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Essentially need to have installed Windows version change to make quicker : EXPEDITE
9-across – Breadheads spaced out? : LOAVES
10-across – Nearest shop : NEXT
11-across – Drug supplier: Ring private investigator : OPIUMPOPPY
12-across – Sport might get 23 : DIVING
14-across – Sport might get 23 : HANDBALL
15-across – Coffee bean ground by Nestlé is ascertainable : ARABICA
17-across – Lines cut care of British actor : COCAINE
20-across – Complete picture — orphans have neither a _____ : PANORAMA
22-across – Outline of heads in shower’s killing — film characters in bathroom : SKETCH
23-across – Booking weak comedian : YELLOWCARD
24-across – Le Tissier’s finish? : MATT
25-across – Fourth’s oddly written down thus: mattresses? : FUTONS
26-across – One grips boring bit in good casting : CHUCKING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Morse writer and designer topless outside : EXTERIOR
2-down – In phone box he changes part of broken telephone : KENT
3-down – BBC programme’s award for meditation technique : QIGONG
4-down – Joy at knight’s line of advance in black queen’s opening position : DELIGHT
5-down – Dance company following foxtrot with short, sad number : FLAMENCO
6-down – It’s sharp to read about taking Greek over Latin : RAZORBLADE
7-down – One corresponds on punishment — clamping sign on road : PENPAL
13-down – Spread round mob — girl is to provide sandwich and pickles : IMBROGLIOS
16-down – Occasionally cars at BMW did skew sideways : CRABWISE
18-down – Skating on thin ice having taken heroin — it’s addictive : NICOTINE
19-down – Opening sequence of Jaws — a maiden’s attacker is circling Amity Island : JAMAICA
21-down – Long way in 9 : AVENUE
22-down – Start to turn off dim-outs — switch element : SODIUM
24-down – Shark attack’s case interrupts doctor : MAKO
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.