This crossword No. 22550 clues and answers were published on Wed 19 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22550 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A hunky old cabinet-maker? : CHIPPENDALE
9-across – Goneril, for example, makes it with Regan : INGRATE
10-across – Country leather? : MOROCCO
11-across – One among Grenada’s exotic plants : GARDENIAS
12-across – Flat heads of valves and plugs in dynamos : VAPID
13-across – Food out East : EATS
14-across – Throws a banquet in the garden : BEDSPREADS
16-across – Clay forms each summer : MEERSCHAUM
19-across – It’s teeth can be hair-raising : COMB
21-across – The hangman used it at the end… : NOOSE
22-across – …all the same, he set Houdini some tricks to get out of : ISOMETRIC
24-across – See wind blowing stern forward : ENDWISE
25-across – Couplet rewritten eight times : OCTUPLE
26-across – Game played by the Queen? : ROYALTENNIS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – It makes for a protracted smoking habit : CIGARETTEHOLDER
2-down – Picture that is about ‘Time’, perhaps : IMAGE
3-down – Nice foreign recipes : PRECISE
4-down – Greek goddess in charge of deserts : NEMESIS
5-down – The animal found furthest from zoo : AARDVARK
6-down – Maps of possible storm locations? : ENCEPHALOGRAPHS
7-down – : SINGLE
8-down – Marauding crowds ruining Rhodes : HORDES
15-down – Roughness of a pyrites compound : ASPERITY
16-down – See 7 : MINDED
17-down – Look inside the last bit of cheese for a parasite : HAIREEL
18-down – The tail end of a decapitated dormouse cut up : UROSOME
20-down – An angel in retreat? : BACKER
23-down – Taken in, but not quite defeated : EATEN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.