This crossword No. 3079 clues and answers were published on Sun 25 Sep 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3079 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Pick up line provided by team’s leader : LIFT
3-across – Vehicle with particular floor covering : CARPET
10-across – Young actress the Spanish upset during opening : STARLET
11-across – Row of houses – create changes involving first in row : TERRACE
12-across – Who, say, could be in favour of sister accepting ring offered by brother, perhaps? : RELATIVEPRONOUN
13-across – Market town in Britain, once desecrated : BRECON
14-across – Type of pate that may be got from goose fair : FOIEGRAS
17-across – I’m stopping boy identifying an element : ANTIMONY
18-across – Watch fire in western half of Bucks town : BEACON
20-across – Stopping train for girls’ college : FINISHINGSCHOOL
23-across – British writer published quite a few : RANSOME
24-across – Bridge player leads as row becomes more unpleasant : NASTIER
25-across – Senility demonstrated by magistrate imprisoning volunteers : DOTAGE
26-across – Try reflecting about giant : OGRE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Type of printer that’s turned up in fire sale : LASER
2-down – At sea, fault inelegant aide-de-camp : FLAGLIEUTENANT
4-down – Mobile busy? : ACTIVE
5-down – Accommodate person of great patience in a fix : PUTUPJOB
6-down – Body temperature, approximately : TORSO
7-down – Declared policy from rostrum : PLATFORM
8-down – Time to fulfil one’s obligations in any foreign dock after repair : DAYOFRECKONING
9-down – English poet, one avoiding stress round New York : TENNYSON
13-down – Unpleasant around river crossing industrial city : BRADFORD
15-down – Use train : EXERCISE
16-down – Police unit manhandled ten after fashionable event : INCIDENT
19-down – Urge almost gone over drink : EGGNOG
21-down – Chide son, lacking in affection : SCOLD
22-down – Generous lager poured out : LARGE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.