This crossword No. 21781 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21781 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Proudly furnished with a snakebite, or something similar : BOASTING
9-across – Next in line to adopt iron cow : HEIFER
10-across – A band from the capital to boot : ALSO
11-across – Court resolution on gang leader given time or bird : WOODPIGEON
12-across – Sturdy black roustabout : ROBUST
14-across – Compiler’s largely unintelligent and less than absolutely fabulous : MYTHICAL
15-across – Initiate a set, having the support beforehand : TEETHE
17-across – Heart of pilot dying to do for his ruler? : MIKADO
20-across – Active teacher returned to hospital feeling off-colour : LIVERISH
22-across – Dwarf employing cunning to conceal backslash? : SLEEPY
23-across – Practise agriculture in religious community and produce flower : FRITILLARY
24-across – Kid’s carriage representing Pythagoras’s first memory : PRAM
25-across – Volte-face about parking is a change for the better : UPTURN
26-across – Careless mistakes by the carrier : SLIPSHOD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – End letters in support of bar : GOALPOST
2-down – Work-to-rule neither starting nor finishing in the capital : OSLO
3-down – One slow to grasp less than sparkling humour : DIMWIT
4-down – Tea and fresh pitta bread : CHAPATTI
5-down – Prig left out what shouldn’t be worshipped on religious visit : PILGRIMAGE
6-down – Game played with ale pot : PELOTA
8-down – Told to give Shed a pasting for being miserable? : GLOOMY
13-down – Not much happening in patchy Berlin airlift? : UNEVENTFUL
16-down – It recedes with a crack of sorts : HAIRLINE
18-down – Member rings round first for object of introvert’s attention : OMPHALOS
19-down – Breaks the gardener’s tool : SHEARS
21-down – Burst in and sound pleased getting back into it : IRRUPT
22-down – Time to enter the country part of Austria : STYRIA
24-down – Press for dismissal : PUSH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.