This crossword No. 22116 clues and answers were published on Fri 26 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22116 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Books about Joyce’s first working title : TOMJONES
9-across – Litter no guy disturbed : YOUNG
10-across – Unpredictable woman’s formula includes nitrogen : MINX
11-across – Victoria perhaps beheaded after rejecting cure for wind : ERUCTATION
12-across – Strike for unlimited food : BUFFET
14-across – Journalist’s banger : REPORTER
15-across – Steady return covering unhealthy man : NEVILLE
17-across – Jocular desire to admit a horse, say : WAGGISH
20-across – Case of the second date : STAKEOUT
22-across – Noble bird went ahead : TITLED
23-across – Bridge team that’s in switched-off state – it can’t last : TRANSIENCE
24-across – Stick up for bird : COCK
25-across – Takes off bunged-up sounding aristocrats? : DOFFS
26-across – Pollsters flanked by a dexter and a sinister : ARMORIAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – The Loneliness of the Outside Left : SOLITUDE
2-down – Greek warrior provides a vote for German 10 : AJAX
3-down – Determined to exclude religious education from the web? : INTENT
4-down – Dialect that comes from the mouth : ESTUARY
5-down – Pay it and sod off to Brave New World, say : DYSTOPIA
6-down – Absolutely wet? : QUITERIGHT
7-down – Don’t look at topless women in Rimini! : IGNORE
13-down – Film script’s material turning on iron weapon : FLICKKNIFE
16-down – Superlatively dizzy, dishes in the dosh : LOOPIEST
18-down – Code-breaking in stately home’s inner shell : SEEDCOAT
19-down – Laurel’s wreathing South Africa’s poetry : STANZAS
21-down – Artist featuring in current polemical outburst : TIRADE
22-down – Woman volunteers to take control : THELMA
24-down – Man upended to produce glazed effect : CIRE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.