This crossword No. 26804 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Feb 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26804 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Precious 11 : DARLING
5-across – Hypocrisy to embrace as a game : CANASTA
10-across – Reversible lids to identify : SPOT
11-across – Record returns by coincidence for the one at this number? : CHANCELLOR
12-across – Pound value, everyone can see a loss for 11 : LAMONT
13-across – 11 tearful guy, primarily : MAUDLING
14-across – Common scruff in poet, son moving away! : TENAPENNY
16-across – Stitch up something with a thread : SCREW
17-across – Capital left, nothing : QUITO
19-across – Punching the puncher, soldier as Walter Mitty? : FANTASIST
23-across – Old Tory contention, where migrants may be entering Britain : HEATHROW
24-across – Rules working for 11 : LAWSON
26-across – Where a test may be sound as a bell in 11 : HEADINGLEY
27-across – Bird to catch, tail first : RHEA
28-across – 11 from Canberra, might you say? : OSBORNE
29-across – I’m going to depart, body failing, end of life : GOODBYE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Replace tape with superb content : ATPEACE
3-down – Draw wasted, having blown lead : LOTTO
4-down – Hanger-on collared, having kissed the first person to speak? : NECKTIE
6-down – Gather together a team for conference : ACCRUE
7-down – Rugby team, seven of whom tackling fifty : ALLBLACKS
8-down – Beat gutless tiger, wild cat : TROUNCE
9-down – Elusive fast animal now, the thylacine : TASMANIANWOLF
15-down – Sound gathering way below walls in retrospect in creative space : ARTSTUDIO
18-down – Former tennis champion in America, inept : USELESS
20-down – Cry on seeing a fox, but trapping friend : TALLYHO
21-down – Oddly sorry about 11, as wet : SHOWERY
22-down – Endless fury, over and over, for application under pressure : IRONON
25-down – Pledge to bag Lancashire’s opener, as a great spinner : WORLD
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.