This crossword No. 26696 clues and answers were published on Wed 07 Oct 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26696 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Come right, ousted by church record : ARCHIVE
5-across – Oh, very sad — we cut and ran : OVERSAW
9-across – Looking fit, if half unbuttoned : TONED
10-across – In the act : REDHANDED
11-across – See 17 : OPPOSITION
12-across – Fast food returned without hesitation is still food : GRUB
14-across – Basic stripping of crude mimes and arty frolics : RUDIMENTARY
18-across – 10 impose love to embrace a given sweetheart : INFLAGRANTE
21-across – Set callback in Adelaide : LAID
22-across – Model barred from turning on model : SIMULATION
25-across – Greeting funny girl with wig outside the merry-go-round : WHIRLIGIG
26-across – Some of Jordan’s water : FJORD
27-across – See 18 : DELICTO
28-across – Derailing the work of the armed forces : DEFENCE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 3 : ACTION
2-down – Bite is capable of 22 : CANAPE
3-down – Strike dictatorial Sunni movement : INDUSTRIAL
4-down – Bird feels sad losing wings : EGRET
5-down – Jack of all trades can supply jambon : ODDJOBMAN
6-down – Perhaps oral sex, but not giving head in the morning : EXAM
7-down – Team has true following of stars : SIDEREAL
8-down – Nothing like slender girls for unscrupulous traffickers : WIDEBOYS
13-down – Representing no certain job scheme, North Sea oil finally switched off : ONBEHALFOF
15-down – Strange to be upset about blundering courage : DERRINGDO
16-down – Ben’s partner was in debt and showed signs of inflation : BILLOWED
17-down – Authorised workplace for Labour today : OFFICIAL
19-down – Refuse to acknowledge noise outside broadcast : DISOWN
20-down – The old-fashioned generation’s nervous : ONEDGE
23-down – Pressed four-page ad to be reduced by half : URGED
24-down – Protocol book holding up, briefly and audibly, an obstruction to progress for the allies : BLOC
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.