This crossword No. 15519 clues and answers were published on Mon 03 Feb 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 15519 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Doing nothing and hoping for the best — being Glenn etc : BENIGNNEGLECT
8-across – Lockjaw : TETANUS
9-across – Australian operatic soprano, d. 1931 : MELBA
10-across – Kind : SORT
11-across – Punctuation mark : FULLSTOP
13-across – Container used in lubricating machinery : OILCAN
14-across – Lingerie — is nude : UNDIES
17-across – Stand in : DEPUTISE
19-across – Experts : ACES
21-across – Nigerian currency unit : NAIRA
22-across – Improving trend : UPSWING
24-across – Scottish breed of cattle : ABERDEENANGUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Cricket club : BAT
2-down – One regarded as sure to succeed in some field : NATURAL
3-down – Departed : GONE
4-down – Big meal : NOSHUP
5-down – Playing for stakes : GAMBLING
6-down – Brilliant success : ECLAT
7-down – Austere monks taking a vow of silence : TRAPPISTS
10-down – Welsh national park : SNOWDONIA
12-down – Writer of light romantic fiction, Princess Diana’s stepgrandmother, d. 2000 : CARTLAND
15-down – Moving slowly and carefully : INCHING
16-down – Accept as true without proof : ASSUME
18-down – Elegance : POISE
20-down – The Orient : ASIA
23-down – Hydrogen, for example : GAS
This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.