This crossword No. 26656 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Aug 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26656 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Shape metal as the Rubicon crossed? : DIECAST
5-across – Lithuanian capital providing dandy start to long journey : LIFTOFF
9-across – Wine staying dry then? : MACON
10-across – Telescope seeing far on the periphery in nuclear device : REFRACTOR
11-across – Winning team losing? That’s muddled : UPSIDEDOWN
12-across – Old South American driving endlessly? : INCA
14-across – Make the truth available to all, probing organic waste : MANUFACTURE
18-across – All left-hand pages are still to go on book : EVENNUMBERS
21-across – Noble almost abandoning extremes : EARL
22-across – Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed : SPECIALISE
25-across – In time, malfunctioning coils put out of place : DISLOCATE
26-across – Author elected to keep a tragedy in stock? : IBSEN
27-across – Pink bottom breaking eggs : ROSEATE
28-across – Hollow cut in back for uniform : REGULAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Terrible killer, an idiot : DUMDUM
2-down – Too much for two characters, say? : EXCESS
3-down – Old lady of Turin turns up with car after arrival of the Messiah : ANNODOMINI
4-down – Stale when married? That’s about right : TIRED
5-down – Foreign fliers beginning to fly at heads of untold falcons, flew madly : LUFTWAFFE
6-down – Weary signal : FLAG
7-down – Meat giving one gout unfortunately, if unknown amount’s consumed : OXTONGUE
8-down – Japanese vessel may be heading to Newcastle, abandoned : FORSAKEN
13-down – Sticking a blade nethermost — sliding around, is it? : ICESKATING
15-down – Ornate enamel apt for sign : NAMEPLATE
16-down – Back Duke Ellington for a start, on guitar : DEFENDER
17-down – Emotional disorder ending in Britain with relative in Brussels? : NEUROSIS
19-down – Neglect a line in book of prayer : MISSAL
20-down – Note of course, heard : TENNER
23-down – Seeing revolutionary monarch, shout hooray : CHEER
24-down – One’s sat upon in non-U America, as an American might say? : SOFA
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.