This crossword No. 22563 clues and answers were published on Thu 04 Jul 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22563 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – To foil strike, say something! : OUTWITHIT
10-across – See 1 down : CAROL
11-across – Sir John’s draught, but it’s rarely blown in the wind : SACKBUT
12-across – Fruit here, or vegetable : ORCHARD
13-across – Bread made by 19 : NAAN
14-across – Ms Malone, Claire and Penelope in Dublin : MOLLYBLOOM
16-across – What do naive characters make of a beauty spot? : NAEVOID
17-across – College fellow swallowing drug substance : POLYMER
19-across – 13, say, where one of Monty Python’s Flying Circus took off? : PALINDROME
22-across – 19 from employee at the court of King Mongkut : ANNA
24-across – ‘E’s getting sound credit for pay outs once in Lisbon : ESCUDOS
25-across – Tho’ race might go so far : REACHTO
26-across – One of Harry’s stiffeners? : SINEW
27-across – Herod’s son to gain entree to Rome ? : ANTIPASTO
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Ca-can’t spell? O! No reason to make a demand on 15 : CONSONANTPLEASE
2-down – The pen of the Judge Advocate General : STOCKADE
3-down – Where the unbaptised bend over backwards? : LIMBO
4-down – The first transport for the masses in Norfolk? : THETFORD
5-down – Second dwarf to take the air : STROLL
6-down – Like a poised anchor, or a tap on the beak : ACOCKBILL
7-down – A king starting Much Ado with the Spaniard in Love’s Labour”s Lost : ARMADO
8-down – Author of Oblomov having lost head via drink with a drunk : VLADIMIRNABOKOV
15-down – Declining introduction to space programme : COUNTDOWN
17-down – Fish confused from keeping pets? Quite the reverse! : POMFRETS
18-down – One called to the bar shone excitedly in the Cambridge institute : MINEHOST
20-down – Gap left by English king escaping nuclear explosion : LACUNA
21-down – Limb emerging from Hera’s calf : RASCAL
23-down – Frank audition of TV controller : ZAPPA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.