This crossword No. 26858 clues and answers were published on Thu 14 Apr 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26858 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Lady into bloomers back in underwear, contrary outfit embraced by different fellow : FLOWER
5-across – Single preference, soup slightly off : MISOGAMY
9-across – Rat killer fighting at a distance and at home : WARFARIN
10-across – Hill upsetting me? Not Damon, initially : UPLAND
11-across – A wake-up call for the Sun? : RISEANDSHINE
13-across – Long throw dismissing opener : ITCH
14-across – One little character, after evidence of head lice, considered alone : INITSELF
17-across – City on Polish borders, strangely mesmerising : HYPNOTIC
18-across – Run one! : RACE
20-across – Married to wife, pain’s learnt the hard way — for her lot? : PARENTSINLAW
23-across – Reject is into drink : DISOWN
24-across – Maintaining cross, return title with bitterness, seeing book’s inscription : EXLIBRIS
25-across – Picture gives an image, ultimately distorted : ENVISAGE
26-across – Fine stuff not entirely describing English breakfast : MUESLI
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Brains in bum : LOAF
3-down – Skinny female, shivering in the raw outside : WAFERTHIN
4-down – Most unusual to see god in the centre of Chertsey : RAREST
5-down – Devices including wrong and right in European language : MANDARINCHINESE
6-down – Private opening in solid square, cube : SQUADDIE
7-down – Squeeze round corners, leaning heads skywards in ravine : GULCH
8-down – Figure taking off in The Doctor, then want sci-fi film : MENINBLACK
12-down – Home leave always conditional at first, occupying post : STAYCATION
15-down – 8 can be fixed? : SCREWABLE
16-down – Infant feeding pot with a European coin : STOTINKA
19-down – Winding course of teeth going the wrong way, right to left : SLALOM
21-down – Infiltrating demo, jingoistic icon : EMOJI
22-down – See 1 : GIRL
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.