This crossword No. 22479 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22479 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Making good check on publication : REINSTATEMENT
10-across – Port rebuilt with new part : ANTWERP
11-across – Publication with IT facility – ring for help in starting : MAGNETO
12-across – Wind up with English meals : TEASE
13-across – Jailing fascists caught in specious activity? : CONFINING
14-across – Prone to deceit … : LYING
16-across – … deceitfully appealing for a handout : LAGNIAPPE
18-across – Tree sheltering sward – why, they say, threatened with the chop? : TRELAWNEY
19-across – Tries afresh at a second attempt : RESIT
20-across – Puzzled in field of maths due for revision : INTRIGUED
23-across – Vision of ecstasy in a drop of the hard stuff : DREAM
24-across – Worked hard and got dirty : GRAFTED
25-across – One who owed anything for lack of liquidity : DROUGHT
26-across – Role to perform daily before royalty, given leave : CHARACTERPART
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Surrender to more French spoken over English : EXTRADITE
3-down – One of the family given quarter in French resort : NIECE
4-down – Cancer – perhaps it’s not right to talk about it : TOPIC
5-down – With a jail sentence no man gets the rope : TIMENOGUY
6-down – Aim gun and fire – unacceptable maybe, but it makes you look big : MAGNIFIER
7-down – Big apple – the Queen gets one in Kenya : NYERI
8-down – Like worms, Nicodemus couldn’t believe them : EARTHLYTHINGS
9-down – Teatime’s around four – or five? : ROUGHESTIMATE
15-down – Fighting man’s happy to stir up a riot : GLADIATOR
16-down – Cryptic clue: go and get a drink : LANGUEDOC
17-down – No driver may proceed on change to green : PASSENGER
21-down – One needs to be in form to inform : TEACH
22-down – Vehicle to avoid? : DODGE
23-down – Poor deputy leader’s rise and decline : DROOP
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.