This crossword No. 3273 clues and answers were published on Sun 21 Jun 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3273 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Seaman posted as missing : ABSENT
4-across – Harridan therefore sent back on vessel : OGRESS
8-across – Fruit belonging to us included in bribe : SOURSOP
10-across – Vegetable cut, cut and cut again : PARSNIP
11-across – Other ranks put in awful place in China? : PORCELAIN
12-across – Following behind, close to mother : LATER
13-across – Be a role model giving group a suitable warning : SETAGOODEXAMPLE
15-across – Suit’s failure to fulfil an engagement? : BREACHOFPROMISE
18-across – Small musical instrument, piercing : SHARP
20-across – Article on reptile leaving peninsula : THELIZARD
22-across – Sit near suspect, crying : INTEARS
23-across – Boy catching breath in town : SWINDON
24-across – French girl, one under ten, fixing plug : NADINE
25-across – Take out retired National winner : REDRUM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sit up following a storyteller : AESOP
2-down – Lady’s maid bringing new berets out : SOUBRETTE
3-down – Gets gen about savings : NESTEGG
5-down – Interrogate, about ring, a thug : GORILLA
6-down – Painter from southern state : ERNST
7-down – Replace wonderful watch set with diamonds : SUPERSEDE
9-down – Instruments producing different pair of notes : PIANOFORTES
10-down – Fast mail service could be £25, say : PONYEXPRESS
13-down – A bassinet, possibly for Alonso’s brother : SEBASTIAN
14-down – Ralph and Enid unwisely flirt : PHILANDER
16-down – Skipper, international, leading reserves at home : CAPTAIN
17-down – Opening of poem about gold and diamonds? Just the opposite : ORIFICE
19-down – In fact, Edith Evans did : ACTED
21-down – Material excavated from below : DENIM
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.