This crossword No. 21840 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Mar 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21840 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Tune Polly played in luxury : OPULENTLY
10-across – In search for a teapot spout : ORATE
11-across – Self-centredness: somehow it goes to my head : EGOTISM
12-across – Pull fish back to where the wind blows : LEEWARD
13-across – Vicious hooker, member of the Eagles : TALON
14-across – Second floor behind the scenes : BACKSTAGE
16-across – The station for Penny Lane? : LIVERPOOLSTREET
19-across – Learned student emptied library : SCHOLARLY
21-across – A successful doctor is also a smoker : CURER
22-across – Express without punctuation : NONSTOP
23-across – Peter, the King Cat! : PANTHER
24-across – A dance very lacking in invention : DISCO
25-across – Bring about spasm once tormented : ENCOMPASS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Everyone inhabiting trees is getting there first : FORESTALLS
2-down – State musicians stay up for European : YUGOSLAV
3-down – Many on charge : LEGION
4-down – Stop a police forces rising : STEM
5-down – How the Tour de France comes round? : CYCLICALLY
6-down – County put under strange mores : SOMERSET
7-down – Country with superior border! : CANADA
8-down – Shortage of nitrogen up-river : NEED
14-down – One whose life is in books : BIOGRAPHER
15-down – Daring printers experimenting with two Es : ENTERPRISE
17-down – Daughter, perhaps, at the end of her Ecstasy : RELATION
18-down – Heart-broken fellow visited by ET? : EARTHMAN
20-down – Some telephones transmit direct : HONEST
21-down – Where the projectionist came in reeling? : CINEMA
22-down – Send awa hooligans : NEDS
23-down – Press forwards : PACK
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.