This crossword No. 21940 clues and answers were published on Mon 03 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21940 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Buttons said to represent danger to sailors : BELLBUOY
9-across – Made to smile by a thought? : AMUSED
10-across – The advantage of keenness : EDGE
11-across – When it leaks, it’s hard to stop : BRAKEFLUID
12-across – Twice appearing as an understudy : DOUBLE
14-across – Time off for his lady-love, perhaps : HOLIDAYS
15-across – They go along with kinky corsets : ESCORTS
17-across – Where one lives a little in Panama, for example : HABITAT
20-across – No racehorse alive is one : DEADCERT
22-across – She made her name in production of Hamlet : THELMA
23-across – Ritual miracle one produces : CEREMONIAL
24-across – What dogs do around trees : BARK
25-across – Did this hen lay the golden eggs? : GUINEA
26-across – Refinement, for example, in an eastern weapon : ELEGANCE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Mortality figures are a complete write-off : DEADLOSS
2-down – This may lead us to the light : CLUE
3-down – Fraudulent scheme in a soap by-product? : BUBBLE
4-down – Sideways? : BYPATHS
5-down – Blooming beast of burden that has trouble getting up : CAMELLIA
6-down – Pondered over the beef, we hear, and warmed drink : MULLEDWINE
7-down – It’s frivolous having a tax about it : LEVITY
13-down – They’re widely grown for eating : BROADBEANS
16-down – What the driver needs on the whole is to be sober : TEETOTAL
18-down – What gunrunners take part in? : ARMSRACE
19-down – Match for a football player : STRIKER
21-down – Place that was hellish before getting public transport : EREBUS
22-down – Rang the bell as instructed, say : TOLLED
24-down – Its vicar was always ready to accept a new sovereign : BRAY
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.