This crossword No. 21633 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21633 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Jail-bait? : PORRIDGE
9-across – A rendezvous at Shaftesbury : AVENUE
10-across – Nice, so they say, stretch of 20 water : FYNE
11-across – See 15 : MACKINTOSH
12-across – It holds one up at last : COFFIN
14-across – A Bolshevik leaning over to include a number back : LENINIST
15-across – After tea Leslie came inside, returning with family rubbish for 20 architect : CHARLES
17-across – 20 city, working gas in radiance : GLASGOW
20-across – This cast no blight on semi-conventional party : SCOTTISH
22-across – See 15 : RENNIE
23-across – Drunken kilty whams a dram … : MALTWHISKY
24-across – … and another, by the sound of it, on a 20 isle, while … : RHUM
25-across – 20 cap some vermouth : BONNET
26-across – It controls drift when Rosie’s apathetic, they say : LEEBOARD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – 20 submarine base reported to be totally secure : HOLYLOCH
2-down – Amerind procreates without benefit of pastor : CREE
3-down – Umpire? He was out at the cinema : ODDMAN
4-down – Rider covers awfully nice first long drawers : PENCILS
5-down – See 20 : NATIONAL
6-down – Symbolic of Japan? Quite the reverse at the end of the day : SETTINGSUN
7-down – 20 smackers? Utter transport! : BUSSES
13-down – It’s to be cast by the sinless Matthew and Mark on being consumed by fervour : FIRSTSTONE
16-down – Terms of article written in a fit of spite : EPITHETS
18-down – Statistician has lost the bill, old boy! I first give notice of being late : OBITUARY
19-down – The opposite of that let out? It’s a prickly one : THISTLE
21-down – Keep talking about the setting of the Ring : CHATON
22-down – Modes of loads of Toad’s odes : RHYMES
24-down – A piece of fleece : ROOK
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.