This crossword No. 22477 clues and answers were published on Tue 26 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22477 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – This woman, they say, needs my body : MASSEUSE
5-across – See 2 : SQUARE
9-across – Original Koppites, given to wit, round on exploiters : SCOUSERS
10-across – Outlet where Samson was eyeless, headless and confined by lawyers : BAZAAR
12-across – No opening for cyber-physiological style? : IONIC
13-across – Contract bidding : TENDERING
14-across – Cave in Bethlehem, one up a diversion, taking one hour : EATHUMBLEPIE
18-across – Slaying one gannet; one tern revived : ENTERTAINING
21-across – Kicked by departing Inuit, was it? : ICEBUCKET
23-across – Joe of 18 26 : ORTON
24-across – Last attempt to go out with it : TRENDY
25-across – Like a fiddler’s elbow in a donut blender : INANDOUT
26-across – What-d’you-call-‘im’s spray gun? : MISTER
27-across – Bound to give the baby a squeeze : SWADDLED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Maverick, valedictory Western role for Monroe or Gable … : MISFIT
2-down – … disaster – so ran a sequel: Here Come the Rangers! : SLOANE
3-down – Soft spot for bosun or midshipman? : EASYCHAIR
4-down – Evidence of confinement with hard labour : STRETCHMARKS
6-down – Tremble at fault’s failing : QUAKE
7-down – What inspired pin-up to enter love feast? : AGANIPPE
8-down – Roger eagerly brewing tea for this prime minister : EARLGREY
11-down – How soon will women combine with unity? An enigma : ANYMINUTENOW
15-down – The first murderer slept here? : LANDOFNOD
16-down – Progressively elevating sloth in episcopal joints? : SERIATIM
17-down – Society meeting the objective in Merseyside : STHELENS
19-down – Hot, wearing bikini in Scotland : ATHOLL
20-down – Eleven as one : UNITED
22-down – A French precipitation, they say, is hardly the thing : UNDUE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.