This crossword No. 21675 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21675 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – So Kipling’s great steamers, travelling world incognito: not a hundred left or scuttled : ROLLING
5-across – Panda car crashing during tour of duty : BEARCAT
9-across – Soldier wearing waterproof: that’s charming! : MAGIC
10-across – See 1 : DOWNTORIO
11-across – It’s Hoddle with we ten, sadly: so what did the eleventh do? : LETTHESIDEDOWN
13-across – Jack’s address keeps a place for the Old Man : AHOY
14-across – See about charm offensive? Who knows? : SEARCHME
17-across – Blackguard and apostate living in old city quarter : EXECRATE
18-across – Haul left in robbery : BLAG
21-across – The Mr Fixit of the Child Support Agency? : MAINTENANCEMAN
23-across – Photograph a man with creativity: might get snap out of it : TAKEHEART
24-across – Faultless banker’s self-assertion? : IDEAL
25-across – Say! Not bad for excellent line one carries : LITOTES
26-across – Bohemian syncopation? : OFFBEAT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Frost’s poem, the Ancient Mariner? : RIME
2-down – Some bowlers aim to wreck: oblige feet to move : LEGBEFOREWICKET
3-down – Work up? Nice work – if you can get it! : INCITE
4-down – Appliance of modern-day force: get out of it! : GADGET
5-down – Rued looking up Miss Smith’s recipe network : BEWAILED
6-down – Right! Name a beast evolving from the aardvarks : ANTBEARS
7-down – Joyce who wrote: Work hard, raise a City partner and point to a growing family : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
8-down – H-horned characters, perhaps, get around this barrier : THORNHEDGE
12-down – Hitchcockian setting of O! Let me stab wildly! : BATESMOTEL
15-down – Tiny Tim right to get a ticking-off about it : CRATCHIT
16-down – Antigone’s tragedy no good to such collegians : ETONIANS
19-down – Double blow from the micro-network : ONETWO
20-down – Outstanding work sought in disaster areas : RELIEF
22-down – Mass circulation impediment : CLOT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.