This crossword No. 25738 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Sep 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25738 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Phone home? : MOBILE
4-across – Restraining orders protecting unruly set from health hazard : ASBESTOS
9-across – Oversized pair of soldiers : GIANT
10-across – Stop short before plant gets split up, disastrously : BALKANISE
11-across – Sociable supplement comprehending our genus : BONHOMOUS
12-across – 26’s last of fruit drink : TWINE
13-across – Head of Treasury meeting worker in Russian Mint — one fomenting unrest? : TROUBLEMAKER
17-across – Type of Tory member : IMPREGNATION
20-across – Latterday Mesopotamian infidel reviled a quiet Israelite for starters : IRAQI
21-across – Resolve to scatter straw around — and fur : DETERMINE
23-across – Boar’s head simmered, stewed and cut up : DISMEMBER
24-across – Unperceptive and overweight in Germany : BLIND
25-across – Senior politician’s first to interrupt labourer : MINISTER
26-across – Undercover operation securing heart of numerical sequence : STRING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Maybe get false memory? : MEGABYTE
2-down – Egghead’s colour range largely replacing centre of Bronx : BRAINBOX
3-down – Races into smallest room for game of chance : LOTTO
5-down – Novelist’s hilarity at Shakespeare’s suicide : SELFSLAUGHTER
6-down – Raised weapon constraining song’s eruption : EXANTHEMA
7-down – Matters of no consequence right up one Roman street : TRIVIA
8-down – Female monarch given the Spanish monetary unit : SHEKEL
10-down – A god read about in scripture is sure to rot : BIODEGRADABLE
14-down – Trees hugged by tramps display irregular quality : BUMPINESS
15-down – Hot sauce summoning up one tear, twice : PIRIPIRI
16-down – Cook insufficiently good: not a likely winner : UNDERDOG
18-down – Dim sow upset by what she lacks? : WISDOM
19-down – Boy pinching a tract from strongman : SAMSON
22-down – Disprove vegetable growth’s reversal : REBUT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.