This crossword No. 21953 clues and answers were published on Tue 18 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21953 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A foreign correspondent : PENFRIEND
6-across – Five notes joined together : ADDED
9-across – Six Scots talking about an old language : SAXON
10-across – Show respect for man nursing dreadful clue about France : GENUFLECT
11-across – Silly talk of she-elephant having a nasty smell : MUMBOJUMBO
12-across – Miss newfangled fads : ISMS
14-across – A step in kinky underwear : PANTIES
15-across – Get tax back and earn, we hear, a holiday place in Greece : TAVERNA
17-across – Backed-up river’s got nothing and produces yellow oil : LINSEED
19-across – Fighting caused by drink at university : PUNCHUP
20-across – Bound, they say, to ebb and flow : TIDE
22-across – Perform on flat surface and perform in the opposite direction : COUNTERACT
25-across – Two girls meet an optimist : POLLYANNA
26-across – Tie poles into small diagram : INSET
27-across – Raise a kind of fly : CRANE
28-across – Three-legged competition : TRIATHLON
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Fleece father’s housemaster : PASHM
2-down – Padded but not in the middle : NEXTMANIN
3-down – Cheapskate first organised party machine to produce results with no pattern : RANDOMISER
4-down – For example, force copper coppers into small holders : EGGCUPS
5-down – Data, mostly taking in Great Britain, concerning unnamed missile : DINGBAT
6-down – A-class grass : ALFA
7-down – Very important show trial : DRESS
8-down – Make a timely impression : DATESTAMP
13-down – Zealous advocate may otherwise avenge record : EVANGELIST
14-down – Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions : POLYTYPIC
16-down – See 7 : REHEARSAL
18-down – Portend new equipment for catching fish : DROPNET
19-down – Joke I made about Punch in another language : PUNJABI
21-down – A bunch of flowers : DELTA
23-down – God beat around it : TITAN
24-down – Auntie’s own protection against flooding? : DYKE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.