This crossword No. 26898 clues and answers were published on Tue 31 May 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26898 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Writer’s way to address monarch, hiding expression of distaste : MAUGHAM
5-across – Bottle, or something Dutchman can get from one : COURAGE
9-across – See 25 : BROWN
10-across – Old movie idol opposed to drink and to inn, oddly : VALENTINO
11-across – Prime text I revised for document someone going may need : EXITPERMIT
12-across – Foremost of brews served in miniature beer mug : TOBY
14-across – Work of 1 across mentioned in speech of 12 26 : CAKESANDALE
18-across – Chief’s equal, it’s said, as source of 14 : SHAKESPEARE
21-across – Finishes off eclair, gateau, scones and rock cake : RUSK
22-across – Has recollections about cars, not sweet in retrospect : REMINISCES
25-across – Former PMs, choice of some at party gathering? : NEWCASTLE
26-across – Rude noise as part of rebel chant : BELCH
27-across – Source of Scotch — produced glass, we hear, in light colour : SKYBLUE
28-across – Kind of bun, besides, being dunked? : CHELSEA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Crowded around doctor going around old base : MOBBED
2-down – Most of drink I consumed in university area, ideal place : UTOPIA
3-down – Passed over tool specially chosen : HANDPICKED
4-down – Person not keeping still after first of moonshine’s finished : MOVER
5-down – Part of Atlantic that’s cold, with ice least dispersed : CELTICSEA
6-down – Makes, as we hear, containers with taps for serving drinks : URNS
7-down – Arid zone endlessly north of an inhabitant of state : ARIZONAN
8-down – Novelist writes, in a way, for well-adapted groups : ECOTYPES
13-down – Drunkenly dine with bun and ale? Sure : UNDENIABLE
15-down – Asian money that is securing saucy neckwear : KIPPERTIE
16-down – Frantically trains, for instance, group of top Russians : TSARINAS
17-down – With reason, soundly consider road that’s raised : CAUSEWAY
19-down – Kind of cake found in old book, cut by 50% : ECCLES
20-down – Inconclusively ask the man what’s problem with expiration? : ASTHMA
23-down – Belonging to part of digestive system some bile activates : ILEAC
24-down – Oatmeal cake, to considerable extent, left : FARL
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.