This crossword No. 26026 clues and answers were published on Wed 14 Aug 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26026 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Provide updated description for insurgent outside US city : RELABEL
5-across – Made nasty statements in second piece : BACKBIT
9-across – Part of tomahawk found somewhere on the Missouri : OMAHA
10-across – Coats I see being altered? China uses them to keep warm : TEACOSIES
11-across – Very fast way to cope with lack of corkscrew? : BREAKNECK
12-across – Compare Liberal former president with new : LIKEN
13-across – Noise made by chains in prison : CLINK
15-across – How scholar gains recognition, gradually : BYDEGREES
18-across – Reduce burden at university to become more relaxed : LIGHTENUP
19-across – Check writer’s material for gap : CHINK
21-across – European seen in London club, a place that attracts many : MECCA
23-across – Restricted middle section used to be soft, then it was revised : WASPWAIST
25-across – Musician has material for strings, including one form of sitar : GUITARIST
26-across – Epic poem in which one macho man eclipses another one : ILIAD
27-across – Listener stirred with no end of emotion — that’s how theatre should be : STERILE
28-across – Doctor moved carefully and cleared out bed : DREDGED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Like diamonds making corrupt mob rich : RHOMBIC
2-down – Raising dough, pound area in later part of day : LEAVENING
3-down – Jet — to get hence to 24 via 5 down, 7 etc, 18 across, 15? : BLACK
4-down – Garbage collector’s brood born at home : LITTERBIN
5-down – Empty space left in row : BLANK
6-down – Use an axe, I note, to argue contentiously : CHOPLOGIC
7-down – React with surprise as bachelor’s put on tie : BLINK
8-down – Tansies stewed, making medicinal drinks : TISANES
14-down – I talk nonsensically about Maori dance, Indian dance : KATHAKALI
16-down – Unfinished lair located south of river, placed in bank : DEPOSITED
17-down – Drawing out, for example, about legal measure, briefly : ELICITING
18-down – Alkaline substances holding up attempt to make porcelain : LIMOGES
20-down – Insect, at very end, finally caught by child : KATYDID
22-down – Cut of meat in lunch in eatery : CHINE
23-down – Plaintive cry from husband entering port, perhaps : WHINE
24-down – Why is tea endlessly combined with milk? : WHITE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.