This crossword No. 26025 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 Aug 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26025 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Wealthy after ring with stone for bird : OSTRICH
5-across – Cut TV host with irritating chat show — how they begin returning! : SCISSOR
10-across – Famous last words initially covering a weakness : FLAW
11-across – Womble advice — one telly oddly discarded in a well-trained fashion : OBEDIENTLY
12-across – Charm of an ’80s hairdo with only one length : AMULET
13-across – Milk deliverer, endlessly fast Ernie’s off with one : FRIESIAN
14-across – Do they keep writing stuff in back of book at stations? : INKSTANDS
16-across – Councillor that is protecting main character in Miami Vice : CRIME
17-across – Hope Supertramp agree finally to reform for something almost out of this world : UPPER
19-across – Meal from a KFC mostly coating finest piece of chicken? On the contrary : BREAKFAST
23-across – Free as a bird without married ones that pull in pub : BARMAIDS
24-across – Highest state to take in quiet moments : UPMOST
26-across – See 17 : ATMOSPHERE
27-across – Put clock back : LAID
28-across – Friar Tuck runs into trouble : BROTHER
29-across – Points of view: Primarily some things never change — everybody speaks about America : STANCES
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Slow motion over circle — Newton’s a wise man : SOLOMON
3-down – Stable workhorse when reared conceals this wheel : ROWEL
4-down – CIA informer hides nothing entering country : CROATIA
6-down – Double lives after credit crunch : CRISIS
7-down – Second one missing from 13’s bad type : SANSSERIF
8-down – Hole left golfer, without hesitation, blocked by one tree : OILPALM
9-down – False boobs, big cups, topless, squeezed — this male, when picked up, will return : SELFADDRESSED
15-down – Instruction to keep a male snake inside vessel : STEAMBOAT
18-down – Record recalled flower — it might be from Paris? : PLASTER
20-down – Most sharp copper intervening during a trial : ACUTEST
21-down – Criminal tie with sins relating to any of five popes : SISTINE
22-down – One advocates love with it on tart : HIPPIE
25-down – Lost following international break : MILAN
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.