This crossword No. 21810 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21810 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – The favourite’s certain to win a little bit : SNIPPET
5-across – Rue bolt being off gun? I can fix it : TROUBLE
9-across – Most European characters need Tory leadership to come alive with : CONTEMPORANEOUS
10-across – Night flier, male, to take to the water : BATHE
11-across – Magnificent night flier in sporting contest : SUPERBOWL
12-across – Not a principal unfinished fraction : THIRDPART
14-across – Sound of waterfall as a rule … : REIGN
15-across – … from land and water in Africa : NIGER
16-across – Dives with French soldier and graduate among cats : MONEYBAGS
18-across – Rubbish on the front page about Poles having to change vessels : TRANSSHIP
21-across – Fantastic Shakespearean copper in a painting the wrong way round : LUCIO
22-across – Kind solver : SORTYOURSELFOUT
23-across – An Italian writer in no hurry : ANDANTE
24-across – Journeyman taking tea instead of usual start to breakfast? : TREKKER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Almost 108 gallons of sherry in old brass : SACKBUT
2-down – Shocked query about new cars is unhinged : ISNOTHINGSACRED
3-down – He claimed the place of the steam locomotive : PRETENDER
4-down – Chief island’s headgear : TOPIS
5-down – Short pants shortened at either end available in Northants. : THRAPSTON
6-down – He has now upset the Queen : OWNER
7-down – 10 : BIOLOGICALCLOCK
8-down – Greek character piles on the agony : EPSILON
13-down – Home provided for a pound for quiet creature about to be so! : ALMSHOUSE
14-down – Prince playing for Oxford or Cambridge? : ROYALBLUE
15-down – Russian girl with some facial hair in North America : NATASHA
17-down – See 5 across : SHOOTER
19-down – Proceed with your remarks about a year, my boy : SAYON
20-down – Make an assumption from 4 : POSIT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.