This crossword No. 25702 clues and answers were published on Tue 31 Jul 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25702 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Man returning with endless capital, a very old European : YUGOSLAV
9-across – Speaker switching one and a half schedules : ORATOR
10-across – Losing lead, cry for horse : ROAN
11-across – Flap by which sleazebag accesses toilets, dubiously : EPIGLOTTIS
12-across – Expert just cut into car, bumper dropping off : AUFAIT
14-across – Source of facts or otherwise in flier, text missing odd parts : INTERNET
15-across – Writing crosswords is getting hard : SETTING
17-across – Entertainment with plenty of kicks, say, mum going in deep : LEGSHOW
20-across – Small compartment in ’ouse with tight walls — something fishy about it? : ROOMETTE
22-across – Shift dressing single bird : BUDGIE
23-across – One studying animal behaviour got hostile, wild : ETHOLOGIST
24-across – Network free after midnight : GRID
25-across – Volume Four behind books ending in marriage, in fulfilment of vows : VOTIVE
26-across – From the water and wine, only beginning to get through fat : LANDWARD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Vegetarian food in flower, obsolete : OUTOFUSE
2-down – High time for a palindrome? : NOON
3-down – Most senior school destroyed, though not all of it : OLDEST
4-down – Requiring a kind of light and energy, it is an eye problem : UVEITIS
5-down – Spinner’s game allowed to get in the way : ROULETTE
6-down – After disco dancing, made 2 and 3 from 6, perhaps? : FACTORISED
7-down – Gourmet’s comment about oxygen, as element : IODINE
13-down – Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein : ACTOMYOSIN
16-down – Explosion of neon right after leakage of hydrogen gas : NITROGEN
18-down – Actress Dawn, one under actor Laurence : OLIVIERI
19-down – Chef regularly cut herb with a French mark : CEDILLA
21-down – Former tax on certain things requiring one’s inspection for starters : OCTROI
22-down – Keen to see monster swallowing vessel : BITING
24-down – Travel one way, then another, as a habit : GOWN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.