This crossword No. 22062 clues and answers were published on Wed 22 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22062 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Instigate frolic in gym : PROMPT
5-across – Chosen people get odd mixture of gold and silver : ELECTRUM
9-across – Old man going to youth centre with material for the people : POPULACE
10-across – Plump sprite, backward and certainly not forward : FLESHY
11-across – Thrilling hail storm takes former sailor outside : EXHILARATING
13-across – North African grouse may be found here : MOOR
14-across – Most severe novelist and story teller starts : STERNEST
17-across – Hiccups evidently turned back some explorer : VESPUCCI
18-across – Florida resort without a role for a soprano : MIMI
20-across – Faculty for understanding news : INTELLIGENCE
23-across – Seafood swindle requires private investigator : SCAMPI
24-across – In the morning wild boar is heavenly food : AMBROSIA
25-across – Alienate sergeant in mess : ESTRANGE
26-across – Underworld before Underground alternative : EREBUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Redevelopment in old town starts civil disorder : RIOT
3-down – Spread out Parmesan, lacking an inferior cheese : MOUSETRAP
4-down – Go round tree that’s meretricious : TRASHY
5-down – Evangelism after presenting a form of immortality : EVERLASTINGFAME
6-down – Compulsory measure for about a month : ENFORCED
7-down – Deal with entertainment paid for by another : TREAT
8-down – Release a part? That’s not generous : UNHANDSOME
12-down – Astronomer given work in nuclear research centre is going round Cambridge University : COPERNICUS
15-down – First anaesthetised individual – absorbing hospital drama : NUMBERONE
16-down – Type of onion ring found in the promised land : SCALLION
19-down – Empower leaderless men on revolutionary island : ENABLE
21-down – Name of man in tree by East River : ELMER
22-down – Some petunias raised by indigenous Japanese people : AINU
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.