This crossword No. 26924 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Jun 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26924 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Feeble, like an old reaper, might you say? : SICKLY
4-across – Means of severing wrestler’s hold : SCISSORS
9-across – Wild flower round by border : OXLIP
10-across – Bid to be taken on before play-actor : PRETENDER
11-across – At least four edible fruit unfit for family : TWOSEATER
12-across – Slang term for ladies bearing large families : CLANS
13-across – Shorthander’s notes unusually explicit : STENOGRAPHIC
17-across – Symbolic end as lunatic in RAF crashes : FINALCURTAIN
20-across – Warning: city cutting supply : ALARM
21-across – Healthy food from Hibernian counterpart of Stirling? : IRISHMOSS
23-across – Rally concluding : GATHERING
24-across – Criminal gang run from the East, crossing island : TRIAD
25-across – Break, when case leader goes for idiot judge again : REASSESS
26-across – Screen cast getting to grips with Latin : SHIELD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Habitually tight, pinching clubs from St Andrews? : SCOTTISH
2-down – Select the best poem before knight’s engagement : CULLODEN
3-down – Sound of ripples in sink : LAPSE
5-down – Selecting the best red, before 23 : CHERRYPICKING
6-down – Less elaborated sportsman’s clothing cut : SKETCHIER
7-down – Traffic added to servicemen’s anguish : ORDEAL
8-down – Most aggrieved sailor put up with others : SOREST
10-down – Safe, impartial, composed old man : PATERFAMILIAS
14-down – Haunts of the addicted, heartless men Oedipus ruined : OPIUMDENS
15-down – Patriarch dispatching last champ, 10 across’s man at 2 : JACOBITE
16-down – Partial United team finally completed : ONESIDED
18-down – Dirk’s looking worn out after exchange of ends : DAGGER
19-down – Staff rejected cunning slogan, oft repeated : MANTRA
22-down – TV cop: The buck stops here : HUTCH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.