This crossword No. 26957 clues and answers were published on Mon 08 Aug 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26957 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Business expenses liable to cause a storm? : OVERHEADCHARGES
9-across – Jack upsets aunt with the French spider : TARANTULA
10-across – Island for outcast in Copperbelt : CORFU
11-across – Begged for petrol, initially, containing additive : PLEADED
12-across – Read without spontaneity : STUDIED
13-across – Declaim regularly, being a priest : ELI
14-across – He searches for another gear : FORAGER
17-across – Understand and win popularity : CATCHON
19-across – Frightful house — I’d move : HIDEOUS
22-across – Shorten a river crossing : ABRIDGE
24-across – High-class navy vessel : URN
25-across – Gates secured by catches? : WICKETS
26-across – Stunt of former pilot in a spin : EXPLOIT
28-across – They fly or take a train : RAILS
29-across – Useless advice! : ECONOMISE
30-across – Result of not passing an oral examination? : DENTALTREATMENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Feeling extremely happy, having reached the North Pole? : ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
2-down – Strange oriental lake : EERIE
3-down – Ashamed to kill one’s best friend : HANGDOG
4-down – Apart and sure to be different : ASUNDER
5-down – Form shown by Olympic finalists in big race : CLASSIC
6-down – Bill is an aristocrat, we hear : ACCOUNT
7-down – Dressed for dinner, perhaps? : GARNISHED
8-down – Money well spent on hearing aids? : SOUNDINVESTMENT
15-down – Revised version of a Communist battle : REDACTION
16-down – One getting a lot of runs in Australia : EMU
18-down – A pound for a white dress : ALB
20-down – Supervise, we hear, somewhere abroad : OVERSEA
21-down – Dubious character? : SUSPECT
22-down – New name given to a single bloom : ANEMONE
23-down – Relationship hit by drink : RAPPORT
27-down – The girl with nothing to exist for? : OLIVE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.