This crossword No. 21625 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Jun 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21625 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Playing snooker abandoned for help to the gardener? : POTTINGSHED
9-across – Distance and time on film : FOOTAGE
10-across – Merchant with a fanciful notion : ANTONIO
11-across – Irish girl and boy are annoyed : IRRITATED
12-across – Early idea: the foam must be recycled : AHEAD
13-across – Breaking solvers’ back, like, is no problem! : EASY
14-across – Generative state with a lot of brackets: do nothing in retirement : PARENTHOOD
16-across – Being there from the start with a proper golden face : PRIMORDIAL
19-across – Revolutionary note in the kitchen : CHEF
21-across – The Prince in the Guardian is the big one : WHALE
22-across – It’s like rubber, the beer – send it back to a town near Calais … : ELASTOMER
24-across – … whose law on disturbed rest is dawdling : LOITERS
25-across – … and whose upper-class type with love at heart became a poet : ARIOSTO
26-across – General produces, as a trial, Kipling’s poem in not quite nice setting : NONSPECIFIC
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Pointless 14, around a street at home, is the 23 7 : PROCRASTINATION
2-down – Healthy bread? : TOAST
3-down – Doing nothing for a moment? : INERTIA
4-down – Is he top of de range? : GRANDEE
5-down – Another top in the county, very brief : HOTPANTS
6-down – Translation of 10 16 down’s work made a hit with confused committee : DANCETOTHEMUSIC
7-down – : OFTIME
8-down – Dirty gold acted on pole : SORDID
15-down – Expected to show one’s free : FORESEEN
16-down – River, supply of water to Baden? : POWELL
17-down – The cat and the Queen had briefly retired to put on fancy clothes : DRESSUP
18-down – A Catholic, about a month in France, uses a Semitic tongue : ARAMAIC
20-down – Have babies in a distant line : FARROW
23-down – He will take if the possibility is available : THIEF
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.