This crossword No. 21832 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21832 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Chap going to kiss girl modelling art wear gets the bird : MANXSHEARWATER
8-across – Having taken on cargo at lake port… : LADEN
9-across – …dirty child on platform is even more dirty : GRUBBIER
11-across – Characteristic of Persian cat in the distance? : FURLONG
12-across – Unfathomable element in baby’s maltreatment : ABYSMAL
13-across – Account not rendered by historian : ACTON
15-across – Society girl meeting poet in tube, perhaps : DEBUTANTE
17-across – Dispense with outdoor party? : DOWITHOUT
20-across – Country where, for example, youth leader takes little part : EGYPT
21-across – Seldom met with portion of food : RAREBIT
23-across – He tries to give confidence to underwriter : ASSURER
25-across – Fearful of being socially acceptable in island circles : TIMOROUS
26-across – Waxed enthusiastic about figure in a red jacket : RAVED
27-across – Fruit to place round kitchen fireplace : BLENHEIMORANGE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Mary familiar with battlefield in book : MOLLFLANDERS
2-down – Partly train a director to cope with bottom of recession, perhaps : NADIR
3-down – Poem about bun involved a summer hat : SUNBONNET
4-down – Promised to become enmeshed : ENGAGED
5-down – Right hand turn Jag takes in garden : RHUBARB
6-down – Sailor takes governor to church : ABBEY
7-down – It’s a fair bet doctor takes old French soldier to flat : EVENMONEY
10-down – Boy game to help people across the Thames : ALBERTBRIDGE
14-down – Drag Wendy Hiller to place of execution : TOWERHILL
16-down – Club official sure in re art anyway : TREASURER
18-down – Lasted longer than couple embraced by roué, perhaps : OUTWORE
19-down – Managed to take back outside most of the crosspiece : TRANSOM
22-down – Tired after stroke to point : BLOWN
24-down – Sailors holding girl up to see bird : RAVEN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.