This crossword No. 3248 clues and answers were published on Sun 28 Dec 2008 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3248 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Knock it back and fall : TIPPLE
4-across – Told stories, on the way back, about volunteers, soldiers given a special task : DETAIL
8-across – Fool, one gatecrashing party wearing it : IDIOT
9-across – Has rector involved a group of musicians? : ORCHESTRA
11-across – Irishman returned book purchased by post : MAILORDER
12-across – Relative has contaminated article taken away : UNCLE
13-across – Appropriate classes in game : HAPPYFAMILIES
17-across – If the correct keys are pressed, one may get some notes out of this : CASHDISPENSER
19-across – Free, the BBC? Not originally : UNTIE
21-across – One may be in the high street selling sheets : NEWSAGENT
23-across – How Ms Blaise may have introduced herself, showing indecorum : IMMODESTY
24-across – Tree with less on top and lacking breadth : ALDER
25-across – Cheap whisky about and foremost of drinks, see : REDEYE
26-across – Deceive the Parisian, a lecturer : LEADON
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Trump his assorted achievements : TRIUMPHS
2-down – Verbal attack making boy snap : PHILIPPIC
3-down – Game, extremely tight once opener’s dismissed : LOTTO
5-down – Senior manager put a plan into effect around four : EXECUTIVE
6-down – Frolic with worker in charge : ANTIC
7-down – Rolling drunk : LOADED
9-down – Miscellaneous pieces from unusual beach crossing point : ODDSANDENDS
10-down – Transports from terribly raw icy areas : CARRIESAWAY
14-down – A standard only a short time ago : YESTERDAY
15-down – Stayed in South America over round Paraguay’s capital : SUSPENDED
16-down – Brothers, British, joining RN, there, at sea . . . : BRETHREN
18-down – . . . Jack, in our resort, is younger : JUNIOR
20-down – Lacking courage in obscure Italian uprising : TIMID
22-down – Wonder about painter turning up well informed : AWARE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.