This crossword No. 26186 clues and answers were published on Tue 18 Feb 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26186 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Agitator from East London ready to follow revolutionary brief : FIREBRAND
6-across – A Monty Python sketch, originally funny : SPAM
10-across – Cut corner heading into narrow street : LANCE
11-across – Light grey French perfume ingredient : AMBERGRIS
12-across – Busy actor turned sloth? Split evident here : CROATIA
13-across – Keeping like a sweet sauce, say : CUSTODY
14-across – Dish of boiled hen — it’s fed to a wild dog in India : TOADINTHEHOLE
17-across – Set of steps needed for tossing the caber? : HIGHLANDFLING
21-across – Sound advice daughter ignored, in general : AGRIPPA
22-across – Wine drunk by loveless fiddle player is more disgusting : NASTIER
24-across – Number I love to sing about opening of railway cutting : TRENCHANT
25-across – Mad as an animal that is trapped : IRATE
26-across – Fanatical followers of Brazil and Barcelona? : NUTS
27-across – Former writer’s holding stationery items dear : EXPENSIVE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Joy of life after moving to Dublin, perhaps : FELICITY
2-down – Copier — one office has it stored away? : RONEO
3-down – How often we get inspiration — and the rest : BREATHINGSPACE
4-down – Insistent girl should meet male model : ADAMANT
5-down – Lost taxi turns up in river fiasco : DEBACLE
7-down – Composer using piano, so the French one : PERGOLESI
8-down – The majority on vacation yearn for North Welsh port : MOSTYN
9-down – Port model ordered : BRISTOLFASHION
15-down – Right inside the bar, no drunk is offensive : ABHORRENT
16-down – Cause pain to Irish horse, say — one mounted the night before : AGGRIEVE
18-down – Vegetation that’s fine in a gale moving east : LEAFAGE
19-down – Uninterrupted playing of pontoon’s lacking nought : NONSTOP
20-down – Container one Geordie home put out for recycling? : CARTON
23-down – National Rail quick? No luck there, sadly : IRAQI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.