This crossword No. 21959 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21959 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – The cure that’s ‘Buy now, pay later!’ – their failing : RETAILTHERAPY
10-across – Birdie surpassed by Coleridge’s handicap … : ALBATROSS
11-across – … he’s right by his sacred river : RALPH
12-across – Beer from the cask, Vassili! : KVASS
13-across – Baseball player in knickers and vest : SHORTSTOP
14-across – Time Ed Lear went off his rocker : TREADLE
16-across – Movement of cattle is turning south : KINESIS
18-across – Call for melon in the freezer : CRYOGEN
20-across – Society leaving partisan destroyed port : TRAPANI
21-across – The old revel in the black bat’s reign : NIGHTRULE
23-across – So Milton’s pair of sirens left without choice : BLEST
24-across – Old type of road stone : METAL
25-across – I’m one Mr Hulot, on as a substitute : IMITATION
26-across – I might make allowances, possibly starting now. God! My pennies! : SPENDINGMONEY
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Nobbling race outsider could be right by me : EMBRACERY
3-down – Lowest female staff members : ALTOS
4-down – Give the once-over once or twice? : LOOKSEE
5-down – Has hit support for the supplicant : HASSOCK
6-down – Land of royal double trouble. : RURITANIA
7-down – Director of experimental : PILOT
8-down – Friedman’s forces restoring credit to make money : MARKETECONOMY
9-down – 1’s acolyte seconds that passion, perhaps : SHOPASSISTANT
15-down – Like libretto’s language, not a prescription to stir the heart : DIGITALIN
17-down – Bad septicaemia killing last two in the continuum : SPACETIME
19-down – Sea creatures Athena utilised by extraction : NAUTILI
20-down – Putting one’s quarry at bay, say! : TREEING
22-down – Gathering everything together under protest, starts to rise : GETUP
23-down – Could this be a negative bender? : BEANO
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.