This crossword No. 21808 clues and answers were published on Mon 31 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21808 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Declare girl has put weight on : ANNOUNCE
5-across – Author holding leading post at university : CAMPUS
9-across – It is stirred into barbiturate in parts : SECTIONAL
11-across – Queen having to keep silent about American president : SHEBA
12-across – Cult that is, perhaps, about to apply restrictions to network : RETICULATION
15-across – Travel back to Georgia in eager excitement : AGOG
16-across – Offspring of central figure in Dante”s Inferno? : DESCENDANT
18-across – It may be tactful to take degree with small movement : DIPLOMATIC
19-across – Queen accepted by no emperor : NERO
21-across – Weapon that would be deplored by the RSPCA : BATTERINGRAM
24-across – Girl : LINDA
25-across – What players often hear from wings sounds bad : NOISESOFF
26-across – Staggered by Spanish article about grass : REELED
27-across – He is there to protect back, for example : DEFENDER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Recess found among cheap seats : APSE
2-down – Fastidious resort : NICE
3-down – Made one of the team : UNITED
4-down – Taking into account motive : CONSIDERATION
6-down – Refrains from making sailors accept taint of guilt : ABSTAINS
7-down – Foretold about one that made affirmation : PREDICATED
8-down – State of inertia in country without females? : STAGNATION
10-down – One having meal out at spot where nuclear attack might start : LAUNCHINGSITE
13-down – Relating to the jaw featured in bird manual : MANDIBULAR
14-down – Enough to live on comfortably, given fitness : COMPETENCE
17-down – A hundred too old to get press write-up? : COVERAGE
20-down – Fellow, for example, getting early start in art of horsemanship : MANEGE
22-down – Band requiring agent : BOND
23-down – One seeing flyers return from a good way off : AFAR
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.