This crossword No. 22647 clues and answers were published on Thu 10 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22647 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Hit the bottle? Moi? In a Greek temple? : METOPE
4-across – 9 or fish from New York? : QUEENS
9-across – Brave man and layabout among volunteers to join rebel: my 22 has no support : THEROYALACADEMY
10-across – See 4 : SCHOOL
11-across – Trust Ballesteros as to how he may be handicapped? : SEVERELY
12-across – Revolutionary painter without a bit of personality must be brave : INTREPID
14-across – City dwelling between second and sixth in scale : LAHORE
15-across – Costermonger’s duck : SCOTER
18-across – Work hard during stop to find bookmark : COLOPHON
21-across – Lorry driver on traffic island : TRUCKMAN
22-across – Just the thing for … for a piercing blow : RAPIER
24-across – Sticker left with nothing else on river home of 9 : BURLINGTONHOUSE
25-across – Country bird that flopped : TURKEY
26-across – Amusing place, as with part of 24, reminiscent of pastoral life? : ARCADE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Beckham’s previous complaint about glitch that lost cup : MOHICAN
2-down – A bone, roughly, in the main body : TORSO
3-down – Accompaniment to cheque isn’t sincere when service follows : PAYSLIP
5-down – The rude military? : UNCIVIL
6-down – Church job appertaining to the Senior Service? : ELDERSHIP
7-down – Needlework’s more liberal : SAMPLER
8-down – No more Methodist ministers allowed on TV? : CLOSED
13-down – Netted 100 lire at Rugby Union dance : RETICULAR
16-down – See 8 : CIRCUIT
17-down – Language of love? : ROMANCE
18-down – A crazy fellow in church, he gave a sermon on the beach : CANUTE
19-down – Ring writer to get fat and emperor when love’s lost : LARDNER
20-down – Supervise poems written in Old English : OVERSEE
23-down – Indian city on a river? On the contrary : POONA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.