This crossword No. 22473 clues and answers were published on Thu 21 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22473 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Abandon Islam? ‘e could be a latter-day Ishmael : OSAMABINLADEN
10-across – Hitherto unforeseen revelation? : EYEOPENER
11-across – I go out for a shroud here : TURIN
12-across – Relieved of the habit, Mon Pere died : CURED
13-across – Laxness – the Nobel prizewinner was not at one accidental gathering : ICELANDIC
14-across – Deceptively casual about height, me darlin’? : ACUSHLA
16-across – First left in the order : THISTLE
18-across – Plaza-Toro’s domain? : DUKEDOM
20-across – One savouring someone else in the lead : POTHERB
21-across – Whose odes awry Could Hermes try? : RHYMESTER
23-across – One having too much of the one c-cup that cheers? : THEIC
24-across – Could one force John from the White House? : IGLOO
25-across – Capital of Karnataka, or a Bengal development : BANGALORE
26-across – Revolutionary Assizes left spare warrant : LAISSEZPASSER
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Incredible brute televised dismantled ship : SHEERHULK
3-down – Two-stroke was cut up : MOPED
4-down – Bill, if mountain climbing up one side of Portugal : BENFICA
5-down – Not about to stitch the king up from this direction : NORWEST
6-down – One’s objective to be the real winner : ACTUALIST
7-down – On the contrary, the Red Queen miscalculated : ERRED
8-down – Parting shot? Och, ours didnae fash! : DEOCHANDORUIS
9-down – New Yorker’s glory in Sunday spiel : KNICKERBOCKER
15-down – Here flourished hogweeds, right? : HEDGEROWS
17-down – So it follows the whistle-blower, or ‘e follows : THEREFORE
19-down – Crompton’s making out the bill that’s unsettled : MUTABLE
20-down – Fastens the blame over a radical type : PARSNIP
22-down – Leaders of Yanks always left their allies conferring here : YALTA
23-down – Alexander the Great has it off with her! : THAIS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.