This crossword No. 22395 clues and answers were published on Tue 18 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22395 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Choreographer’s position in the company : CRANKO
4-across – Sidearms : ARSENAL
9-across – Mosaic entrance passage at 13 : BARMIZVAH
10-across – Beg the question in a vacuum : AVOID
11-across – Here comes the bride for a man with capital : AISLE
12-across – Coolness of dodgy gas fire done out of energy twice : SANGFROID
13-across – Herein Radames, caught by his god, returning to a pastoral idyll : ARCADIA
15-across – A contentious issue from the continent : AUSSIE
17-across – A ghost on losing direction : ASPECT
19-across – Smooth character motivating the rest of the children : SANDMAN
22-across – Ideal place for society to suspend rail travelling : SHANGRILA
24-across – Jab from the weapon of El Cid? : ELBOW
26-across – Combination of sex with marriage : UNION
27-across – Flush to the heads of Conservative matrons? : BLUERINSE
28-across – Salt beef on the hoof with wings : OXALATE
29-across – Seduced by a French fellow. Ecstasy! : UNDONE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Welsh water taxi’s introducing hidden depths here : CABBALA
2-down – How Polonius was covered in embarrassment : ARRAS
3-down – Anchor, getting out of fine mess and into predicament : KNIFEEDGE
4-down – A more pretentious homonym? One can’t say : APHONIA
5-down – Duncan’s killer seen hanging by the neck : SCARF
6-down – Coinage in some lingo or other : NEOLOGISM
7-down – Affected foreign aid from the French department : LADIDA
8-down – A match for Thus Spake Zoroaster : AVESTA
14-down – Norma’s invocation: give the role to a Joan Sutherland? : CASTADIVA
16-down – Supreme Court’s inner sanctum initially had disturbance : SANHEDRIN
18-down – One to kick against the pricks? Let him bleed a little : THIMBLE
19-down – American eye has failed to sum up : SHAMUS
20-down – Two presents not present : NOWHERE
21-down – Buy sardines with it? Use cod fillets! : ESCUDO
23-down – Source of Columbus’s sail : GENOA
25-down – Don’t let the little woman play it! : BANJO
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.