This crossword No. 21803 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21803 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Something of a canard spread about one sleuth? : MAIGRET
5-across – Berry’s description: graduate, county councillor and mischief-maker : BACCATE
9-across – Begin following her, eventually : GOLDAMEIR
10-across – Style of King Herod utterly regressive : TUDOR
11-across – Offside player’s lapse : SLIP
12-across – Instruction to Cromwell’s nanny? What a cracker! : BATHOLIVER
14-across – ‘e left bits of garlic for one who conquered Paris : CLOVIS
15-across – Hiss at first-class return to the state : ALGERIA
16-across – Whisky might flow faster, that is, without soda initially : WATEROF
18-across – Birmingham’s pronounced posterior? Hang about! : LOITER
20-across – Just what the doctor ordered? My lips are sealed! : NILBYMOUTH
21-across – See 13 : BODY
24-across – Communicate like a Cicero or a Lawrence : ORATE
25-across – Anger in turning cold is male pacification : IRENICISM
26-across – Society stayed on line – while he built the Oxonian theatre? : SHELDON
27-across – Thaw out now from this rapid response team : SWEENEY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Greek characters bearing silver, or man from the east bearing gold etc : MAGUS
2-down – Hostility shown to the ailing Bard : ILLWILL
3-down – Hardly a counterfeit coin : REAL
4-down – Laureate’s dicta – or unfinished Newton maths folio, perhaps : THELAWSOFMOTION
5-down – Laureate’s valediction on the cards? It hardly fails among speculators : BIRTHDAYLETTERS
6-down – No neat passage here : CATTLEGRID
7-down – Let ’em ‘ave it in ‘ampshire : ANDOVER
8-down – Pure air contaminated as time replaces power at Wedgwood’s plant : ETRURIA
13-down – Not on your life – or, rather, mine! : OVERMYDEAD
16-down – Gates opened these? : WINDOWS
17-down – Payment to pupils on time : TOLLAGE
19-down – Waterloo winner collared and cropped? : ETONIAN
22-down – My, my! You sound awfully attractive! : YUMMY
23-down – See 16 across : LIFE
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.