This crossword No. 26440 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Dec 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26440 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – 502 shillings invested in plant covered the wound : DRESSED
5-across – A flipping flat-bottomed vessel? : TUMBLER
9-across – West Country town mine, its gold going west? : FROME
10-across – River, one in West Country town — yes, yes, yes! : POSITIVES
11-across – Hitter, jumper and flier : CRICKETBAT
12-across – Policeman left inside whales : PLOD
14-across – See 22 : NAMEISWOMAN
18-across – Harmless drunk missing wife, figure touring the bogs : INOFFENSIVE
21-across – Advantage held by landed gentry : EDGE
22-across – Words from Hamlet confusing family with satyr in the West Country : FRAILTYTHY
25-across – Cryptically, what might one do with a Cornish pasty and where? That’s bliss! : BEATITUDE
26-across – Abandoned ship’s first to enter West Country town : LOOSE
27-across – Draw away from Land’s End, England trailing rapidly away, Cornwall too, for starters : DETRACT
28-across – Greek character taking drug with the ability to say sausages backwards? : EPSILON
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Imperfection in desert : DEFECT
2-down – Aphrodisiac — it’s in the heart, rising : EROTIC
3-down – Meat cutter that’s fast and keen I suspect, cook finally put away : STEAKKNIFE
4-down – Point about record store : DEPOT
5-down – Opera coming over in doubly twisted old maestro : TOSCANINI
6-down – Time in West China : MATE
7-down – Retro lighter in the toilet resembling member : LAVALAMP
8-down – Currently in office, office in further test : RESIDENT
13-down – In some parts of the plant, little troublemaker initially uses insincere praise : SWEETTALKS
15-down – Beneath top of mainmast, cast-iron case for the quarterdeck, perhaps? : MINORSUIT
16-down – Something dynamic, perhaps, in horribly dire wet bottom? : RIVERBED
17-down – Moving out of Paignton? : POIGNANT
19-down – Street, then turn for promenade : STROLL
20-down – Mythical flier, wacky with vulture and raven wings : WYVERN
23-down – Byzantine empress turning up in Tenerife : IRENE
24-down – Not entirely green, a South American capital : LIMA
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.