This crossword No. 26880 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 May 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26880 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Independent’s last edition attracts love and goes quickly — can’t believe it : TISSUE
4-across – See 1 : OFLIES
9-across – How the papers show the truth in ink, with balanced exchange of letters : INBLACKANDWHITE
10-across – Crossword fan put off taking on Times : DEXTER
11-across – Consumer items for Boatman bound by a large number of perverse rules : DURABLES
12-across – Periods of confinement for deceitful offence : LYINGSIN
14-across – One causes cuts in circulation, with red top in panic : LATHER
15-across – Bird in Mirror to mourn Independent, gutted : PEEWIT
18-across – Crooked act conceals class : DEFORMED
21-across – Fury at American church leader having cash injected by unknowns : APOPLEXY
22-across – Newspaper’s leader has moral code about racial designation : ETHNIC
24-across – Don’t hinder telling of legend with face pulled repeatedly by hack, ok? : KEEPOUTOFTHEWAY
25-across – Times, say, shows these unpaid workers absorbing a newspaper : SERIFS
26-across – Couple lose last scrap of hope in case : ATTACH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Have a go, grabbing girl where skin is dressed : TANNERY
2-down – Drew attention : SPLIT
3-down – Unleashes chaos to rock Sun : UNCORKS
5-down – Showing political unity in savage newspaper leader : FEDERAL
6-down – It prevents rust in gold finish to exotic metal in heavy tap : INHIBITOR
7-down – End of quote from paper’s other edition : SOTHERE
8-down – Guardian in conflict over retreat : WARDEN
13-down – Snapper we found misbehaving in one publication : NEWSPAPER
16-down – Former newspaper, one that never stopped : EXPRESS
17-down – Article on Polish nudity : THEBUFF
18-down – To the Left, Conservative way causes decay : DRYROT
19-down – Here find a newspaper, a revered one; a river runs through it : FLEETST
20-down – Goodbye Porkpie Hat or 1,000 lost, sadly? : EPITAPH
23-down – One’s end: laugh wildly; guzzle an impala : HYENA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.