This crossword No. 26263 clues and answers were published on Mon 19 May 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26263 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Very hot grease swallowed by singer : BOILING
5-across – Occasional workers might wear these : CASUALS
9-across – Poet turns to take semi-fierce part : DIVORCE
10-across – A purple butterfly is yours for a sovereign : EMPEROR
11-across – He’ll help a simpleton to sit around getting 1 No Trump : ASSISTANT
12-across – Aggressively criticise a Sunday meal? : ROAST
13-across – Hurry! Don’t start to get nun-like : HASTE
15-across – Grotty toast leads to sickness : ILLHEALTH
17-across – Deodorant might be needed here, when ready for a fight : UNDERARMS
19-across – Unusual topic related to the eye : OPTIC
22-across – Small sailing vessel off-loads iron to get to a town in Italy : LUCCA
23-across – I’m behind schedule for La Mer, which includes wild brief love etc : LATECOMER
25-across – Attractive woman offers a biscuit : CRACKER
26-across – No lisp by upper class turns into a Greek letter : UPSILON
27-across – Having submitted could have made Eddy lie : YIELDED
28-across – Pantomime character wants mole to perish : PIERROT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Dishonest man gets rotten potatoes : BADMASH
2-down – Fashionable underwear producing funds : INVESTS
3-down – Former king of Libya is here, so I’d nearly stand up : IDRIS
4-down – Re-reading this word upset a soldier : GRENADIER
5-down – Talk about the end of confidence trickster : CHEAT
6-down – Cartoon character is great, when attracting her love : SUPERHERO
7-down – To be sick confines girl to such correspondence : AIRMAIL
8-down – Lengthen a prison sentence : STRETCH
14-down – Listener bruised and put aside : EARMARKED
16-down – It may win or lose a bridge contract, but it might wake everybody up : LASTTRUMP
17-down – Ill-omened, unlike a Kingsley Amis character? : UNLUCKY
18-down – A cricket captain may do so and confess : DECLARE
20-down – Drinking vessel for a circus entertainer : TUMBLER
21-down – Musical instrument contains nothing of use to lesser royalty : CORONET
23-down – Tempted evangelist half wanting to take wine : LURED
24-down – Group of people, actors at the end of a farce : CASTE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.