This crossword No. 26051 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Sep 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26051 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Though analogue isn’t a poisoner ___ ? : DIGITALIS
6-across – Question surgery — and cry : WHOOP
9-across – See 12 : TRADE
10-across – See 17 : TARANTINO
11-across – Pretence created to trap dinosaur, half taken aback : MASQUERADE
12-across – Cast adrift are legal dealings : FAIR
14-across – Gather work is put to use again : REAPPLY
15-across – Ray — setter needing support : SUNBEAM
17-across – In Iraq, a nut not requiring ten rounds, shooting American? : QUENTIN
19-across – Hole that’s round when poking food : ORIFICE
20-across – Century featuring in the unlikely score : ETCH
22-across – Message after message, chat’s chat? : TWEETTWEET
25-across – Conventional theory or empty theory about carrier shouldered by strong worker : ORTHODOXY
26-across – Old-fashioned saw : DATED
27-across – Temperature requiring delicate adjustment : TWEAK
28-across – Evidence of grief about current boyfriend’s first bedtime companion : TEDDYBEAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Food processor a cut above, that’s a fact : DATUM
2-down – In middle of Aegean, girl overcoming fighting vessels etc? : GLASSWARE
3-down – Animal and friends that are felt up, among those friendly creatures? : THEMUPPETS
4-down – Service — something dreaded about it : LITURGY
5-down – On board ship, tourist’s opening travel bags : STRIDES
6-down – House virtually collapsing, knackered roofs, one lifted in the breeze : WIND
7-down – Board’s Franco-German affirmations? : OUIJA
8-down – Schedule for a little mass : PROGRAMME
13-down – One of 364 celebrated in Hardy, but after editing : UNBIRTHDAY
14-down – French product — nonsense to conceal, as they say, what for : ROQUEFORT
16-down – Focus of ground-breaking classic course, abridged : EPICENTRE
18-down – Poet Henry’s contemporary having to flee : NEWBOLT
19-down – Polyphemus was so like Porphyrion, Agrius or Tityus, they say? : ONEEYED
21-down – Percentage — that is a lovely thing : CUTIE
23-down – Mary possibly died in defeat after uprising : TUDOR
24-down – See 6 : SOCK
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.