This crossword No. 26030 clues and answers were published on Mon 19 Aug 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26030 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Exact money : BLACKMAIL
6-across – Unfinished aircraft design : PLAN
8-across – Don’t cheat in two forms of leisure activity : PLAYFAIR
9-across – Think in depth : FATHOM
10-across – Aim ambitiously for praise, being wretched : ASPIRE
11-across – Gets more than one’s share of froth with this measure of alcohol : HOGSHEAD
12-across – Saucy antics? : CAPERS
15-across – Worker in the prairie producing fruit : PLANTAIN
16-across – Censorious to a dangerous degree? : CRITICAL
19-across – Runaway affairs? : DRAINS
21-across – Star of the Magic Circle? : PENTACLE
22-across – One takes no end of cash in, finishing with nothing : CASINO
24-across – Show preference for old penthouse : LEANTO
25-across – Said to be celebrated : OBSERVED
26-across – Ring starts nervous reaction in the ear : OTIC
27-across – Workers given fish — a gesture of goodwill : HANDSHAKE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bottle opener and drinks in packs : BALES
2-down – Amenity switched to an unspecified date : ANYTIME
3-down – A card cheat may be so described : KNAVE
4-down – It goes up with inflation : AIRSHIP
5-down – Soldier’s an expert swimmer : LIFEGUARD
6-down – Saucepan’s ready for cooking what this has killed : POTSHOT
7-down – Commercial address brings high esteem : ADORATION
13-down – Enter game play, making contract : AGREEMENT
14-down – Dismiss ministers, a sign of contrition : SACKCLOTH
17-down – Enormous disaster struck it : TITANIC
18-down – It makes one wild what people do when they retire : LIEDOWN
20-down – American detained by courts in European country : AUSTRIA
22-down – Expenses legally incurred : COSTS
23-down – Relative found somewhere in the south of France, we hear : NIECE
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.