This crossword No. 25673 clues and answers were published on Wed 27 Jun 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25673 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Slender and supple, is going to experience desire without love : WILLOWISH
10-across – Kind of 25 half-heartedly put in pen : CORAL
11-across – Like 8 but not 25 in one game, it follows 8 and 25 in another : BLACK
12-across – Spice to eat, spread over old vegetable dish : MACEDOINE
13-across – Establishes one’s position in store after reorganisation : ORIENTS
14-across – One metre used in variety of basic verse : IAMBICS
17-across – As you’re speaking, this goes overhead : AZURE
19-across – Some work contributing, either way, to greater good : ERG
20-across – Settle what’s not serious : LIGHT
21-across – Revise the tale for 8 : ATHLETE
22-across – Article absorbed by players before another game : CANASTA
24-across – Part of explosive mixture shattering steel trap : SALTPETRE
26-across – Heartless husband pinching ring, a scoundrel : HOUND
28-across – Spent a pound, getting nothing in return : ALLIN
29-across – One cuts off electricity at home — our last resort : INSULATOR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Directions sailor needed to clean deck : SWAB
2-down – A large and violent goddess that reacts with 6 : ALKALI
3-down – Means to connect scientist, as well as the writer, to listeners : HOOKANDEYE
4-down – Test material that shows up in final? It must : LITMUS
5-down – Vivid colour of hair covering key person : SHOCKING
6-down – Something helpful containing cold, so-called drug : ACID
7-down – British union leader in revolt, turning 11 and 8 : BRUISING
8-down – See 19 down : BLUE
13-down – It’s in Oklahoma, Hawaii … and Nebraska : OMAHA
15-down – One calmly adapted, accepting husband 8 : MELANCHOLY
16-down – Religious work faculty outside university’s taken up : SUTRA
18-down – In evil fashion one’s trapped in a French tree : UNHOLILY
19-down – Choose king that is holding strange club, male counterpart of 5 25? : ELECTRIC
22-down – Danish 8, for example, that’s said to make one smile : CHEESE
23-down – Small dog, by day’s end, is 8 : SMUTTY
24-down – Reversed crazy attempt to 25 : STAB
25-down – See 5 : PINK
27-down – Gloomy coastguard’s last on rescue vessel : DARK
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.