This crossword No. 26802 clues and answers were published on Tue 09 Feb 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26802 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Lots more kids, but only a little noise? : BABYBOOM
5-across – Material is excellent, endlessly ornate : FABRIC
9-across – What about learner at race, perhaps well down the grid? : ELEVENTH
10-across – Prayer of saint to be set among the stars : ORISON
12-across – Observed leading Scotsmen like a piper : SPIED
13-across – African grower available to engage tennis champion : FEVERTREE
14-across – Musician’s skill rescued tarnished gig : SIGHTREADING
18-across – Horse so sick, tamed and patted on the back : BROKENWINDED
21-across – Drink in large amounts during music’s ending : CREAMSODA
23-across – Crowd keep listening : HORDE
24-across – Short cut through lab maze? : RATRUN
25-across – Pastoralist finds the way to part of India : GOATHERD
26-across – Resolve unfinished plan by end of year : DECIDE
27-across – Led follower to create flyer : ZEPPELIN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Start to read through Waugh’s daily: this once on page 3? : BREAST
2-down – Little to keep king leaving union : BREXIT
3-down – In Ireland, be awfully poor on this : BREADLINE
4-down – Safe now to serve beer so? : OUTOFTHEWOOD
6-down – With beginnings of asthma, is reaching with hesitation for ventilator : AIRER
7-down – Part of day fine … stop! : RESTRAIN
8-down – It’s cold beside the road; get closer : CONVERGE
11-down – Sluggish, not in going under old porch but on top : OVERANDABOVE
15-down – Egyptian leader with a popular record attracts people : AMENHOTEP
16-down – Jack, abandoning tasks, smoked behind screen : OBSCURED
17-down – Couple rowing: I’d come running across the street : DOMESTIC
19-down – Ancient method of trial, or coming to agreement : ORDEAL
20-down – Carrying burdens across back of mule that’s slow : LEADEN
22-down – Large hill finally converted to small one : MOUND
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.