This crossword No. 26157 clues and answers were published on Wed 15 Jan 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26157 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Expect super puzzle by Qaos! : PRESUME
5-across – Perhaps miracle ball reversing direction with side spin? : OPUSDEI
10-across – Capital offences should loosen offending heads : OSLO
11-across – Red Sea storms follow fresh onset of rain, he announces : NEWSREADER
12-across – Mashed potatoes not so much used for brewing : TEAPOT
13-across – Start getting excited about revolutionary mechanical devices : RATCHETS
14-across – Rough school expelled Oscar, taking back paper first and rulers : OLIGARCHS
16-across – Hit for 6? Time to stop : STUNT
17-across – Poet, one you reportedly study : AUDEN
19-across – Like the prime number eluding da Vinci, extremely hidden : INVISIBLE
23-across – Actor likes improvising to mask no good play’s finale : KINGSLEY
24-across – Huge, funny man disguises the end of punchlines : COSMIC
26-across – Husband does movie reels and family films : HOMEVIDEOS
27-across – Colour page with stationery : PINK
28-across – Short on game experience : UNDERGO
29-across – South Africa follows newspaper material : ORGANZA
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Brand market drops 25% after collapse of USSR : RUSSELL
3-down – Vessel gathers liquids up : SLOOP
4-down – Scary figure in gym on steroids : MONSTER
6-down – I tape record criminally? : PIRATE
7-down – Western food? : SPAGHETTI
8-down – 11 over, 10 over? : EVERTON
9-down – When body shakes with fear, sitting on European insect : DWARFHONEYBEE
15-down – Birds from Spooner’s happy country? : GREYGEESE
18-down – Motherless, unromantic savage lifts hem of skirt, the horny beast : UNICORN
20-down – Cold is muffled by fashion, otherwise it can bite : INCISOR
21-down – German mathematician raises variable in book that’s the origin of logic : LEIBNIZ
22-down – Catapult over its frame to get airborne : FLYING
25-down – Brown’s record? Invading Afghanistan, initially : SEPIA
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.