This crossword No. 21967 clues and answers were published on Thu 03 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21967 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Dark colour around the motorway is rock : PUMICE
4-across – Note, for example, increase and work out takings : CASHUP
9-across – Slight stain : SLUR
10-across – Having drunk tots, miscue and produce strain : SETTOMUSIC
11-across – Girl taking turn round island in slow movement : ADAGIO
12-across – Still, yen in exchange is superficially attractive : TINSELLY
13-across – Being initiated, somehow we think on : INTHEKNOW
15-across – Bring back tackle with young fish : DORY
16-across – Fairy in super Iolanthe production : PERI
17-across – Criticism follows when I replace you, they say, in the organisation : STRICTURE
21-across – Sack man, reversing position : DISPLACE
22-across – Travelling case for one taking part in dance : VALISE
24-across – Worked on tyres even – and exercised with weights : PUMPEDIRON
25-across – Drop a small weight : DRAM
26-across – Distribute gin, perhaps, by a ship : ASSIGN
27-across – Air point of view : ASPECT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Following father, Linda turns out a champion : PALADIN
2-down – Lady doctor’s rowdy celebration : MORAG
3-down – Hats : CASSOCK
5-down – Flourish with a bounce : ABOUND
6-down – Where one lives only on water? : HOUSEBOAT
7-down – Man, say, enters into wage pattern : PAISLEY
8-down – Up-to-the-minute condition of gallery’s work : STATEOFTHEART
14-down – Hearty dances? : HORNPIPES
16-down – Precise, if shapeless, formula produces something flowery : PRIMULA
18-down – Makes up in passages : INVENTS
19-down – Bird, not dead, to take on new life : RESTART
20-down – Pet to lick tail? : LAPDOG
23-down – Ridge was in front, for example, when climbing : LEDGE
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.