This crossword No. 21960 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21960 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Last year’s winner not skating – he’s got a job : OFFICEHOLDER
8-across – Work to amuse the audience could be an illusion : OPTICAL
9-across – Emphatically he who could be Flemish… : HIMSELF
11-across – … was successful about greeting in pseudo-French, not Flemish : WALLOON
12-across – River of silence, with name among the nameless : SHANNON
13-across – Grandma pregnant? She must be kidding! : NANNY
14-across – Resident’s home with Dickens’s leader and servant : INDWELLER
16-across – Application for cooking meat in church council : TREATMENT
19-across – Nick a second duck : STEAL
21-across – I – my husband also – need break with continuity : BUSMANS
23-across – See 21 : HOLIDAY
24-across – Ancient city time insufficient, I’m afraid, among single characters at liberty: we purchase only seconds : THEBEST
25-across – See 24 : AREFREE
26-across – See 24 : THINGSINLIFE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bunting from church door to lancet window : ORTOLAN
2-down – See 22 : FACTORY
3-down – It appears in the spring of an antelope in a moving start : CELANDINE
4-down – Laughs like dry moats : HAHAS
5-down – Shearers’ party hit the hay : LAMBALE
6-down – 10 with real potential never finishing : ETERNAL
7-down – Bookmaker required? I doubt it : YOUWANTTOBET
10-down – Playtime for piano among stringed instruments, final heats : FUNERALPYRES
15-down – Wife and child I leave in agricultural building : DUTCHBARN
17-down – He slept, wrongly, with Scots girl : ELSPETH
18-down – Following notes in following part-exchange : TRADEIN
19-down – Romance in a long dress was said to have finished Mozart : SALIERI
20-down – Back at last – steed wouldn’t start : ENDORSE
22-down – What makes widows at 10 good enough? : SATIS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.