This crossword No. 22897 clues and answers were published on Thu 31 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22897 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Don’t utter the golden number – add some butter : SHORTEN
5-across – Guides and indicts engineers : DIRECTS
9-across – Chief ways to be at home in Belgian city : MAINLINES
10-across – Trunk growing from roots : TORSO
11-across – Game of water polo? : POOL
12-across – Sailor accepting return of singular sort of word fed on 1 across : ABBREVIATE
14-across – 1 across topped otherwise by wasp : HORNET
15-across – Pip’s girl – is she from across the water? : ESTELLE
16-across – 8 : SLAVISH
18-across – 14’s other seat : THRONE
20-across – Footsore cattle? : CORNEDBEEF
21-across – In the course of finishing a wonderful building : AMID
24-across – Stay for a time in the bathroom : BIDET
25-across – A largely 1 across age – 24 hours, alas! : ALACKADAY
26-across – The Dormouse’s well content : TREACLE
27-across – Communist holds Fascist leader 1across-ed : REDUCED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – A little music for 17? : SUMUP
2-down – Flower, gold one, at Number Two briefly : ORINOCO
3-down – Money for ring : TOLL
4-down – Note about a certain bum : NONEBUTTHEBRAVE
5-down – See 4 : DESERVESTHEFAIR
6-down – People who applaud nonsense can be useful in the garden : ROTOVATORS
7-down – 1 across, the wagger and the wagged : CURTAIL
8-down – Semi-slow cooker for East European : SLOVENE
13-down – Medicine for St Giles’s day – caper about : ANTISEPTIC
16-down – Get rid of qualification formerly in the wind : SACKBUT
17-down – A game 1 across : ABRIDGE
19-down – Not still angry? Toss coin about it : NOMADIC
22-down – Spirit publicising the danger of spirits? : DRYAD
23-down – Second child out of control? : SKID
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.