This crossword No. 22283 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22283 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – * Song about goldfish : ARAUCARIA
10-across – Assured of keeping rust in plants : UREDO
11-across – Game needing double top : DIABOLO
12-across – Where reluctant Scotsman lives? : LOTHIAN
13-across – Two notes from a Port-uguese folk song : FADO
14-across – Bouncer at the Leisure Club? : TRAMPOLINE
16-across – Silver ring on the floor : AGROUND
17-across – It could be bought for a tanner : SUNLAMP
19-across – A he-man died horribly here : MAIDENHEAD
22-across – Orcadian hut for retreating louts : SKIO
24-across – Where one holds the driver! : PILLION
25-across – * Castro, with the heart of a lion : FIDELIO
26-across – * River maiden, perhaps : ROVER
27-across – Maori chief smuggled gun to IRA : RANGATIRA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Capital members’ gardens redeveloped for the Millennium : CARDIFFARMSPARK
2-down – Raider starting to arrange a murder most foul : MARAUDER
3-down – A novel shovel : SCOOP
4-down – Suited for night warfare, by the sound of it : ARMOURED
5-down – In Aqaba, a lime grove houses fertility gods : BAALIM
6-down – * Bridge opponents found after both run away : BUNTHORNE
7-down – * Car behind empty garage : GEMINI
8-down – A different way of asking to be wed at the bar : COUNTERPROPOSAL
15-down – Good daughters end as good mothers : SUPERIORS
17-down – Support for the workforce? : STAFFING
18-down – All I do with a potassium compound is this : ALKALOID
20-down – Where sweethearts fell most violently at sea… : INLOVE
21-down – * … then drank the contents : HENDRA
23-down – He lives by puffing : ADMAN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.