This crossword No. 21859 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Mar 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21859 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Response in case of extreme dysfunction : REMEDY
4-across – Figure no mature person prevaricates about : LITOTES
9-across – Poor Dave takes his mother round the city as a companion : VADEMECUM
10-across – Grumble about table service : BLEAT
11-across – Path of an endless plague : LOCUS
12-across – Henry’s grandfather left in bad odour : OWENTUDOR
13-across – Rifle designed with no initial recoil in the butt : ENFIELD
15-across – Manoeuvre of man on course swapping ends : TACTIC
17-across – Eager to add a little tree to the forest : ARDENT
19-across – Presumably one simply looks round for a room in the States? : OCELLUS
22-across – Off round the world, soaking everything up : ABSORBENT
24-across – Red Robin, a commercial broadcast : ADAIR
26-across – Excess profit and the seriousness of losing it : GRAVY
27-across – Blair swallows Times’ garbled evidence : TESTIMONY
28-across – Take the place of soldiers reportedly on furlough : RELIEVE
29-across – Is she where power is to be found? : INGRID
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Turn of the vicar to make love : REVOLVE
2-down – Where I find a doctor in France? : MEDOC
3-down – A Syrian who could stop a quarrel : DAMASCENE
4-down – Sign of caution in an officer and gentleman, perhaps : LAMBERT
5-down – Apocryphal work – opening Bible gets into it : TOBIT
6-down – Starting to study a philosopher can be a drudge : TREADMILL
7-down – Scornful comment on the Day of Wrath : SATIRE
8-down – Agreement on current lead : ACCORD
14-down – Anticipate Ashdown, perhaps with everything : FORESTALL
16-down – In the beginning is my beginning and my end : CREMATION
18-down – Various letters of support : TRESTLE
19-down – To ring telephones for custom is insensitive : OBTUSE
20-down – Being unsteady, Roger went off course : STRAYED
21-down – Fritz goes head over heels into the trough : MANGER
23-down – Master of the Rolls : ROYCE
25-down – Love – a queer turn about nothing : AMOUR
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.