This crossword No. 25761 clues and answers were published on Mon 08 Oct 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25761 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A change of view from across the Channel : VOLTEFACE
6-across – Bag for loot : SACK
8-across – Tucking into venison, can’t be the wine pourer : DECANTER
9-across – Examination of tissue by op is ordered : BIOPSY
10-across – He could be best man and groom : OSTLER
11-across – Person freshly appointed to make a clean sweep? : NEWBROOM
12-across – Got the wrong city area : GHETTO
15-across – Secret coteries broken up : ESOTERIC
16-across – Technician in control : ENGINEER
19-across – First service : MATINS
21-across – Middle West ground to be avoided : ESCHEWED
22-across – Legs in action make one run : SINGLE
24-across – Stand in for the rehearsal or run : DOUBLE
25-across – Frank to inform against business accepting non-union staff : OPENSHOP
26-across – Sandpiper in difficulty : KNOT
27-across – Car demo to be organised — for a president? : MOTORCADE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Takes a new line in free verse : VEERS
2-down – A tract of meadow felt to be different : LEAFLET
3-down – Come in to register : ENTER
4-down – Organise row on a river : ARRANGE
5-down – Joint study produces scope for expansion : ELBOWROOM
6-down – Firm in rush to get a cat : SCOURGE
7-down – Discount a misprint in Guardian : CUSTODIAN
13-down – Passes on effortlessly : HANDSDOWN
14-down – More than a quarter take control at sea as master : OVERWHELM
17-down – Occupy in monastic style : INHABIT
18-down – Old soldier who went to work at Butlin’s : REDCOAT
20-down – Dressed in a suit, country-style : TUNISIA
22-down – Direct supplier of beef : STEER
23-down – Dissolute but not tight : LOOSE
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.