This crossword No. 22629 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22629 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Bingo caller half-converted rustic home : LOGCABIN
5-across – Calculator used in French exam in Australia : ABACUS
9-across – Whittle about one final destination – or the other? : PARADISE
10-across – Adornment for turning deer into insect : ANKLET
11-across – Explanation in reverse is, say, dividing old flames : EXEGESIS
12-across – Take note in favour of a tasty mouthful : BONBON
14-across – Old Swiss physician in rush to join Friends of America : PARACELSUS
18-across – Admiral’s head over heels about seaman’s holiday : SHORELEAVE
22-across – Memorised Shakespearean books : LEARNT
23-across – Queen, for example, in Voice of Mr Hyde, perhaps : ALTEREGO
24-across – Stimulating coterie almost stimulated : EROTIC
25-across – Arrangement for Delius to take retirement : SOLITUDE
26-across – Regular yen and noble yen : YEARLY
27-across – Ambitious, so competed in a projection : ASPIRANT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Raised odds in the sea beast’s misdemeanours : LAPSES
2-down – Fish’s lair where land is worked : GARDEN
3-down – Boy medic coming in for a second time : ANDREW
4-down – Amended site dating and established origins : INSTIGATED
6-down – Cane wielder’s instruction in hill town : BENDOVER
7-down – Gourd keeping a party in the money : CALABASH
8-down – Corrupt saint: a saint? Anything but! : SATANIST
13-down – It’s great to spoil French solvers, keeping distance : MARVELLOUS
15-down – Exercise out of season on tracks to the old instrument : PSALTERY
16-down – Firm of accountants about to look up drink manufacturers : COCACOLA
17-down – Sailors’ greeting in ugly scene in Thomas’s poem : FERNHILL
19-down – Sign of stone in icecap : GEMINI
20-down – Nasty end for Alexandre Dumas’ ghastly woman : MEDUSA
21-down – Stretch of water going so fast : SOLENT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.