This crossword No. 22347 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 Oct 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22347 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Utterly blown out from wordsmith : BULWER
4-across – See 1 : LYTTON
9-across – Dustman : ADAM
10-across – Consort making name in Co-Conran creation : COHABITANT
11-across – Where the ayatollahs lie in state with an omophagous Amazonian : PIRANA
12-across – Son of Slad’s directors catching my drift with this? : LEEBOARD
13-across – North Atlantic threat a pretext to make an Italian hop : BERGAMASK
15-across – With ____ of leaves and ripple of rain : LISP
16-across – The limit of Procol Harum’s colour chart? : PALE
17-across – Coming before the water hazard : ADVENTURE
21-across – Ash Wednesday, oddly enough, not so fast : EMBERDAY
22-across – Captain Scott names the game hunter : FALCON
24-across – Populate the county? Cool it! : SETTLEDOWN
25-across – Harry Ramsden’s contribution to IT? : CHIP
26-across – Some coal left out for fire : IGNITE
27-across – Anthropologist’s objective in Melton Mowbray? : PIEMAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Eleventh hour in the BBC Book Department? : BEDTIME
2-down – Witch reverting to nameless creature : LAMIA
3-down – Old forty-niner’s right to raise hell : EXCLAIM
5-down – Why, some say, a French priest has the right to talk nonsense : YABBER
6-down – One might own the body of this designer’s work : TATTOOIST
7-down – This paint completely dry, is it? : NONDRIP
8-down – What 1 across 4 wrote applied to times of ashy destruction : THELASTDAYSOF
14-down – Girl wearing underwear here in Texas : GALVESTON
16-down – See 8 : POMPEII
18-down – Levantine gentleman speaking, initially, of France and North Dakota : EFFENDI
19-down – Thus the Colossus managed to carry the first load of bricks : RHODIAN
20-down – Against entering trade disruption at short notice : ADVERT
23-down – Alternative medicine man : LOCUM
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.