This crossword No. 27085 clues and answers were published on Wed 04 Jan 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27085 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Secretary — person with importance that tops the pile? : PAPERWEIGHT
9-across – New classes seeing how films are recorded : INTAKES
10-across – Drive back suspect, like top-class fighter of old : SAMURAI
11-across – Freshly crowned leaders of Greece and Rome put down : GARLANDED
12-across – Little devil that’s caught cutting part of plant : BRACT
13-across – See 14 : RENT
14-across – Cereal crop cut at end of season for nominal fee : PEPPERCORN
16-across – Great sport with deer — sadly it’ll set you back a bit : RETROGRADE
19-across – See 16 : STEP
20-across – Poor journalist longing to get back outside : NEEDY
21-across – Muse as setter consumes exotic lemon pie I overlooked : MELPOMENE
23-across – Eg Boris’s message rejected by Scotsman : ETONIAN
24-across – Good place for reception where trouble may flare up? : HOTSPOT
25-across – Slips in field, perhaps, chasing cunning wingers : FLYCATCHERS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – New Father Ted plot curtly condemned as child’s work : PETERANDTHEWOLF
2-down – Authentic sound coming from cockle : PUKKA
3-down – Novelist’s career to come to an end : RUSHDIE
4-down – Chilled dessert served up after rest : EASEDUP
5-down – Grouse, maybe, as valiant effort restricts runs : GAMEBIRD
6-down – Eponymous man of Nazareth appearing randomly in records : TARZANOFTHEAPES
7-down – Criminal deferring pint, impressed by police? : FINGERPRINTED
8-down – In office, reasonably well placed : SITTINGPRETTY
15-down – Cyclist skirting large metropolis, Rome perhaps : HOLYCITY
17-down – One state’s revolutionary broadcast blocked by another : ROMANIA
18-down – First to last, benefit in backing police is hard to fathom : DELPHIC
22-down – Bizarre public reaction, battle being lost : OUTRE
This crossword has in total 26 where 14 are across and 12 are down.