This crossword No. 25723 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Aug 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25723 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Musicians providing accompaniment to muck? : BRASS
4-across – See 10 : FEATHERS
8-across – Artist adopting mongrel pup or green bird : EMPERORPENGUIN
10-across – Furious or thirsty as a result of 24? : SPITTING
11-across – On your bike with a tungsten stiletto, maybe? : AWHEEL
12-across – Trace second woman smuggling one part of Bible : SCINTILLA
15-across – Hat put on head of Canadian subject : TOPIC
17-across – Called on electronic spectrum : RANGE
18-across – Season to compete with leader coming last in Q&A session : INTERVIEW
19-across – Light reading facilitator : KINDLE
21-across – Game keeping female paragon neither up nor down : HALFMAST
24-across – Glum economist : DOWNINTHEMOUTH
25-across – Happened to be killed in battle : BEFALLEN
26-across – Dull but costly recipe included : DREAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Event proves Spooner’s anxious and penniless? : BREASTSTROKE
2-down – Topless African securing watering hole for newt, perhaps : AMPHIBIAN
3-down – Seaman’s afterthought about mackerel-catcher? : SPRAT
4-down – Remote 2 introducing female to male singer? Not exactly : FARINELLI
5-down – Help to get a flutter? : ABET
6-down – Outweigh hot art’s turning point : HIGHWATER
7-down – Erect or flatten, reportedly : RAISE
9-down – Unenthusiastic worker, one nabbing philosopher reversing direction : CLOCKWATCHER
13-down – Writer’s material impounded by consort returning to camp : TREBLINKA
14-down – Air Force’s target — Eastern ruler’s lambskin? : ASTRAKHAN
16-down – Peculiarly peculiar time for origami, say : PLICATURE
20-down – Lachrymose character getting gong first in return : NIOBE
22-down – Celebrated like Beethoven upholding Mozart’s first : FAMED
23-down – Kind of blue, having got a very low score : ANIL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.