This crossword No. 25823 clues and answers were published on Wed 19 Dec 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25823 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Group of officers, heads of naval detachments : COMMAND
5-across – Old Scotsman’s colourful project : PREDICT
9-across – Nice way of saying Arachne’s somewhat vacuous and a bit wet : MOIST
10-across – It might drop me, if uninitiated in its use : TIGHTROPE
11-across – Expert on land usage cultivating margins, too : AGRONOMIST
12-across – Privileged American used to be attracted to power : WASP
14-across – Of sound mind, ultimately buffered by stout optimism : SANGUINENESS
18-across – Inspecting, unannounced, what teenagers get up to in bathroom? : SPOTCHECKING
21-across – Top copy with illiterate’s signature : APEX
22-across – Damn it, Twitter, you embody fatuousness! : NITWITTERY
25-across – Party line developed into mutual exchange : INTERPLAY
26-across – State occasion making a mint : THYME
27-across – This team makes you tea : ENDLESS
28-across – Qualified agreements to rework endless subsystem : YESBUTS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Struggle to disentangle 16 down : COMBAT
2-down – Relating to fast, tailless fictional bloodhound : MAIGRE
3-down – Ace tenant merrily taking possession of duke’s house : ATTENDANCE
4-down – On reflection micron’s a tiny amount, in fact : DATUM
5-down – Bouncer quietly getting Oscar to leave club : POGOSTICK
6-down – Destroys country house, top to bottom : EATS
7-down – Admirer’s agreement to marry — but not yet : IDOLATER
8-down – Wrongly enter hairdressing establishment offering health treatments : TRESPASS
13-down – Interest as founder returns to old place : REINSTATES
15-down – Freedom fighters beleaguer ill-assorted internees : GUERILLAS
16-down – Radioactive element, which is used to lower cholesterol in casualty : ASTATINE
17-down – Disturbed Harry Lime’s last day : MOLESTED
19-down – Copper said goodbye : SEEYOU
20-down – Where French children learn to core fruit : LYCEES
23-down – Sardonically mentioning carefree fellow : WRYLY
24-down – Perhaps the elder Turgenev gets noticed periodically? : TREE
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.