This crossword No. 21988 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21988 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Opened up an alfresco feast : OUTSPREAD
6-across – Game may be caught by a man with craft : CHESS
9-across – Awesome oriental lake : EERIE
10-across – Unusual police function : ARRESTING
11-across – Mugs people in the street – a charge results : ASSESSMENT
12-across – A beast, though not with women : STAG
14-across – The wretched have no ____ , or so wrote Dryden : FRIENDS
15-across – Stand with outstretched arms on the dinner table! : EPERGNE
17-across – Book put by for a rainy day? : RESERVE
19-across – Out – in – out: it can be good training : TUITION
20-across – Looked over a newspaper leader about the demode : EYED
22-across – Take account of rise in value : APPRECIATE
25-across – Silence on changes effected – such boldness! : INSOLENCE
26-across – Say there’s nothing in immorality : VOICE
27-across – Commanding gun carrying soldiers : GREAT
28-across – An illness that can excite interest about one : ENTERITIS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Foreign character, part of a fearsome gang : OMEGA
2-down – Goes quiet – it’s due to the old kitchen equipment : TURNSPITS
3-down – Left surrounded by rustics, make some quip : PLEASANTRY
4-down – A theologian taking ages over a piece of music : ERASMUS
5-down – Grandee’s letters fomenting disorder : DERANGE
6-down – Many refuse ready money : CASH
7-down – An order incorrectly cited : EDICT
8-down – Dull-coloured flag, say, never raised : SAGEGREEN
13-down – See, not for the first time, about underworld protection : REDISCOVER
14-down – Anticipatory – like television viewers! : FARSEEING
16-down – A sound man, having some pluck : GUITARIST
18-down – The cost of installing coops in a river : EXPENSE
19-down – Great rush to hire outside right : TORRENT
21-down – Follow directions – and then use wrongly : ENSUE
23-down – Odds, oddly enough : EVENS
24-down – A residence that lowers the tone? : FLAT
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.