This crossword No. 25884 clues and answers were published on Fri 01 Mar 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25884 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Spooner’s awful misty weather? Hearth’s the place for one to be : FIREDOG
5-across – Reveal peacekeepers wanting sudden improvement across society : UNBOSOM
9-across – Officer and ordinary soldiers locked in toilet : COMMODORE
10-across – Force back partner’s head in dance : REPEL
11-across – Endless sweet cake is wrong : TORT
12-across – What may produce bangs that could be supersonic : PERCUSSION
14-across – Sun has to be demeaning to women? : SEXIST
15-across – Film in San Marino not so bad : RAINMAN
16-across – Liberal held in derision, making one cross : SALTIRE
18-across – Party order — two articles delivered outside : ATHOME
20-across – Where you may find shrubs pruned raggedly — just some! : BACKGARDEN
21-across – Weary one falling before end of walk — a long one : TREK
24-across – Compass shows north, needed in storm : RANGE
25-across – Single island in setting that’s not spoilt : UNMARRIED
26-across – Best man seen round back of hotel, drunk : PICKLED
27-across – Denies entrance into cosy home, when time has passed : NEGATES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – This person did the work and put on a false show, we hear : FECIT
2-down – Some err, wanting new direction — feeling this? : REMORSE
3-down – Give up work, when under the doctor : DROP
4-down – What to do for pre-match security? Look at the issues : GOOVERTHEGROUND
5-down – Crusade going wrong with surprising lameness — do they want to put the clock back? : USEDCARSALESMEN
6-down – Vessels, any number, in bay for time of celebration : BURNSNIGHT
7-down – Thus Greek character’s beginning to make specious argument : SOPHISM
8-down – Colouring matter — minute dash goes in : MELANIN
13-down – Bed chamber? : DIVINGBELL
16-down – Old boy has hesitation during drink — needing to do this? : SOBERUP
17-down – Lecturer, a figure in mathematics, brief and to the point : LACONIC
19-down – One could create max. stir, maybe? : MARXIST
22-down – Praise message of indifference to nation? The reverse! : KUDOS
23-down – Puff? Puff perhaps, when legless : DRAG
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.