This crossword No. 26629 clues and answers were published on Tue 21 Jul 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26629 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Part of the score Bilbao got wrong : OBBLIGATO
10-across – Match ends of star and catarrh, say? Hum and come? : RHYME
11-across – Country road bizarrely appended to old coin : ECUADOR
12-across – Shortcoming involving student getting put on new course : DEFLECT
13-across – Cut corners and speed-read page : SKIMP
14-across – UK reel, triple forte, causing commotion : KERFUFFLE
16-across – Wait to catch volunteers, returning, breaking balls : DANCEATTENDANCE
19-across – Small waterway or roadway concealing a mussel shell : STREAMLET
21-across – Jones’s partner goes to middle of 21 down to seek water : DOWSE
22-across – Threaten to be left to finish : PORTEND
23-across – Animal shelter overturned, engulfed by unpleasant smell of animal : MUSKRAT
24-across – Dispenser of Dutch courage : OPTIC
25-across – Pants, perhaps, at bottom of river : UNDERWEAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Puritan’s urgent call about birdseed mostly getting scattered : SOBERSIDES
2-down – Cleaning number one instrument holding laptop up : ABLUTION
3-down – What fearful people have to finish? : WINDUP
4-down – Fishwife : PARR
5-down – Custom keeps the German people marvelling : WONDERMENT
6-down – Without supporting rising, poet’s deep : PROFOUND
7-down – Personally intervening, stifle symbolist’s ascent : MYSELF
8-down – Match lacking a bit of 25 : VEST
14-down – Exercised crowd control with peculiar instrument : KETTLEDRUM
15-down – Simple city housing oriental soldiers and sailor : ELEMENTARY
17-down – Blades slicing bits of peaches regularly disappear : EVANESCE
18-down – Grins salaciously about following novel footage : NEWSREEL
20-down – Right cultivated, collecting one collector’s piece : RARITY
21-down – Rat, of course, gutted : DESERT
22-down – Story in bed : PLOT
23-down – Fashion, or endless exhibitor thereof : MODE
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.