This crossword No. 26570 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 May 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26570 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Increase open cargo boat’s atmospheric illumination? : UPLIGHTER
10-across – Magnify one’s end many times over : EXTOL
11-across – Half-square key with a movement in need of oiling : SQUEAKY
12-across – Tramp’s boxing arena rebuilt with tin — you can’t get lower than that : MARIANA
13-across – Speak highly of no power boost : RAISE
14-across – Histrionics forced earldom into a reduced state : MELODRAMA
16-across – Meeting place of California’s Plates Movement : SANANDREASFAULT
19-across – County Kerry: so lax about greeting : YORKSHIRE
21-across – Nosey creature’s salt-covered eye : TAPIR
22-across – They’re thumping mad? : BONKERS
23-across – A Loire variation on a flowering shrub : OLEARIA
24-across – Subject to image being reduced : TOPIC
25-across – Where to get tanked up with pro at end of the play area? : FORECOURT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Greek character, awfully gross — heavens, it’s a man of music! : MUSSORGSKY
2-down – I live with soul in torment misconception : ILLUSION
3-down – Start off a captain of industry, related on the male side : AGNATE
4-down – Brace of salmon’s source? British river : STAY
5-down – Announce Portugal’s heaving with ’em : PROMULGATE
6-down – Understand fiord is rendered as ditch : GETRIDOF
7-down – Greek island with a cat that’s externally weightless : ITHACA
8-down – Feel a bit sorry for trifle : FLEA
14-down – Manages to get issue to a union? : MARRIESOFF
15-down – Persistent sensation of behind getting smack : AFTERTASTE
17-down – Beginning to sound like Scottish lacking in brains? : NASCENCE
18-down – Superior cleavage that could stun you : UPPERCUT
20-down – They usually precede deliveries of cultivated Prunus : RUNUPS
21-down – See 12 : TRENCH
22-down – See 8 : BITE
23-down – Former Hollywood studio turned up a lady’s fingers : OKRA
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.