This crossword No. 21883 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21883 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Cheats to hold on to bloodsuckers? Nonsense! : FIDDLESTICKS
8-across – Any number unwell? Could be catching! : NAILING
9-across – Boast more than this: not in back-to-front dress : OUTBRAG
11-across – More vacant English MP goes to the bank : EMPTIER
12-across – The French man at wedding needing space : LEGROOM
13-across – Gaelic girl wants jazz music after a moment : MORAG
14-across – They watch old boy taking on tennis players : OBSERVERS
16-across – Stupid twit did me wrong : DIMWITTED
19-across – Retiring Josephine dipped into dry Spanish wine : RIOJA
21-across – To say more is supported by this essayist : ADDISON
23-across – The ABC of literature? : LETTERS
24-across – I surrender, says fielder with new cap : YIELDER
25-across – Bangle I smashed: what language! : BENGALI
26-across – Racecourse leveller gets giant rat moving : STARTINGGATE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Hand of airman moving round very quietly : FLIPPER
2-down – Forceful doctor, one no good after six : DRIVING
3-down – Gruel, a lot, revived drunken hooligan : LAGERLOUT
4-down – Sacks turned over in this armless chair : STOOL
5-down – A complete entity would make it green : INTEGER
6-down – Musical entertainment, The Ring, accepted by a king and a libertine : KARAOKE
7-down – Go-between is to bury me with a journal : INTERMEDIARY
10-down – Potter’s Field! : GAMESMANSHIP
15-down – Pouch holds joint of meat given to ugly woman : SADDLEBAG
17-down – Indiana’s here, where dew and mist are mingled : MIDWEST
18-down – How to cook pork, we hear, for a man in clique : INSIDER
19-down – Do a turn, dancing round, in circular building : ROTUNDA
20-down – Reporting a hundred short, no longer useful : OVERAGE
22-down – Italian architect from a greener village : NERVI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.