This crossword No. 22380 clues and answers were published on Fri 30 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22380 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Boil for two months : DECOCT
4-across – Got a huge C for Clumsy : GAUCHE
9-across – See 25 : ISLE
10-across – Kept up, so it’s claimed : MAINTAINED
11-across – Shakespearean court with detectives about : BARDIC
12-across – Six points ahead, Herb – fancy! : ENVISAGE
13-across – Obnoxious creatures primed with lubricant turning bright scarlet : VERMILION
15-across – Heard to deserve the bird : ERNE
16-across – Hint to learner: get in prompt : CLUE
17-across – Big toe cracked turning hot tap! Get the bone doctor : OSTEOPATH
21-across – A vessel in choice metal : PLATINUM
22-across – Unfixed one part of the street parade : AFLOAT
24-across – Occasion on which a student is working : FUNCTIONAL
25-across – Man to man in Cumbria : CARL
26-across – Bring about the demise, say, of Santa Claus : SLEIGH
27-across – Filthy place to keep fish cold : STEELY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Peculiar seaside complaint : DISEASE
2-down – The Amerindian God is to be believed : CREED
3-down – Joker gets most of the drink; that’s funny : COMICAL
5-down – Stirring kind of voice : ACTIVE
6-down – Part of helmet found by child in street and even put back : CHINSTRAP
7-down – Centrepiece Peregrine ordered, but not the right one : EPERGNE
8-down – Eating hours starting to be considered uneconomic : TIMECONSUMING
14-down – Imperative to include ring, a revolutionary facial adornment : MOUSTACHE
16-down – Flag of a military man we lay claim to : COLOURS
18-down – Man in kind of shirt turned up with old shoulder badge : EPAULET
19-down – A treaty distributed by carrier : TEATRAY
20-down – Not quite over being wound up : ENDING
23-down – Hercules? He’s off to raise the dough : LUCRE
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.