This crossword No. 21979 clues and answers were published on Thu 17 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21979 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Boy’s ambition to go with Virgin ere end appears? : ENGINE
5-across – So-and-so vicar’s baptismal request? : WHATSHIS
9-across – At the heart of remembered sleep, let’s start to misappropriate : EMBEZZLE
10-across – Saying When ought to show what you’ve had : ENOUGH
11-across – 1 23 and 26 are enemies: plot incompetently at separating them? : FOOTPLATEMEN
13-across – Put down one’s nose? : SNUB
14-across – See 22 : SAISQUOI
17-across – Vegetable cooked by a cleric without energy : CELERIAC
18-across – The oriental heaven is a form of cold storage : ESKY
20-across – Principal expression at Roundhill getsgoing : STARTERMOTOR
23-across – See 1 : DRIVER
24-across – Changed over, on, or off : SWITCHED
25-across – A quick coffee? : ESPRESSO
26-across – Fireman associated with vampires : STOKER
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – See 5 across : NAME
3-down – Awfully fine story, too good to put into words? : INEFFABLE
4-down – The fossil that wasn’t one broken outside the menagerie : EOZOON
5-down – Pooh’s hums – even the cows can do them with increased forward pressure : WHENPUSHCOMESTO
6-down – Caveman partly on song, a sacred one : AVEMARIA
7-down – See 5 : SHOVE
8-down – Warm places in the valley the Ordnance Survey has correctly included : INGLENOOKS
12-down – Contracts among sets that may be false : INDENTURES
15-down – Cubist, second half first, with companion round hardwood tree : QUEBRACHO
16-down – Guns, if raised, back original work : FIREARMS
19-down – Tommy’s flowers have lost their tops : ATKINS
21-down – Dog going right across? : ROVER
22-down – Jo is Queen, as I wanted, having that mysterious quality : JENE
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.