This crossword No. 26641 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Aug 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26641 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Free-thinking woman artist in defiant gesture : FEMINIST
9-across – Outrageous prices for abstracts : PRECIS
10-across – Painter, perhaps, leaves ship unfinished : LINE
11-across – PR guru, source of ideas, high priest and god? : IMAGEMAKER
12-across – Literary portrait by Mondrian, roughly trimmed : DORIAN
14-across – Catering for travellers to Burundi, going back: a poor place to live : TOURISTY
15-across – Allusion in Monet composition : MENTION
17-across – Belong to painter’s movement? : PERTAIN
20-across – A little love, eternally a soothing thing : ALOEVERA
22-across – Artist rejecting name of the game : HOCKEY
23-across – Shaky contrivance of abstract art: model allowed to speak freely? : RATTLETRAP
24-across – See 7 : FILM
25-across – One who would use art innovatively : SEURAT
26-across – Church painter, one who follows trends : CHARTIST
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Tiny interval in opera: company gets schedules back to front : SEMITONE
2-down – Clue to artists’ financial troubles : DIRE
3-down – Boatman’s enthralled by giant of an artist : TITIAN
4-down – See 2 : STRAITS
5-down – It’s small round small Latin country with secret hot Latin Quarter : SPHERULE
6-down – Slavishly rule-following, like at first, say, a novice, is a nervous thing : LEGALISTIC
7-down – Perhaps the artist is an avant-garde 8, taking in two students : SILENT
13-down – Boatman in old ship going below? Then I disguised where my destiny lies : INTHESTARS
16-down – A dish? Who, me? Let Telemachus be revealed! : OMELETTE
18-down – A drug-taking artist: one revered as a visionary : IDEALIST
19-down – Pressure to compete causes artist to copy : RATRACE
21-down – Not even Leonardo ends well off : LOADED
22-down – Get hot about Constable — he’s cool : HEPCAT
24-down – Initiator of Fauvism? Munch historically was, a lot : FATE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.