This crossword No. 22002 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 Sep 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22002 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Conservative – first member to join afresh in game – was most often 12 9 : CHAMPIONJOCKEY
9-across – See 12 : THEPOST
10-across – Ascribe unrest to Italian city : BRESCIA
11-across – Black note held by fiddler : NEGRO
12-across – Winner takes all – see complete article in Bugle Call : FIRSTPAST
13-across – Lebanese Christians make horses go round on it : MARONITES
14-across – Pooh’s work for the Guardian? The answer’s in the soil : HUMUS
15-across – Too much to be paid to international body? : UNDUE
17-across – Girth of one embracing the United Reform Church : SURCINGLE
20-across – The last people to enter anything as quality assurance? : ENDOWMENT
22-across – Begin wild party : BINGE
23-across – Finch to mediate on what to write with : CHEWINK
24-across – Gallery would shortly be having boards for ventilation : LOUVRED
25-across – Think differently about German composer’s role reversal: 17, say? : KNIGHTBACHELOR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Tom and Jerry’s performance passed by anti-suffragettes : CATANDMOUSEACT
2-down – Fury in Bremerhaven, Germany : AVENGER
3-down – Word of a sort the church has to utter : PRONOUNCE
4-down – Excluded by Oxford to conform? : OUTOFIT
5-down – Injection of Irish-American waders from Brazil : JABIRUS
6-down – It isn’t fair to give temperature in Celsius : CHEAT
7-down – Cry over what was staked by former partner : EXCLAIM
8-down – King’s head fits awkwardly with fireguard : FAITHSDEFENDER
14-down – Head start for image enhancer or head sweeper? : HAIRBRUSH
16-down – Useless fellow gone off in a huff : DUDGEON
17-down – Likedown Jerry, slippery customers climb over little Tom : SLEEKIT
18-down – Agent of typhus with fatal reproduction : RATFLEA
19-down – Real time left to the public : GENERAL
21-down – Get rid of the liquid sound of the bells : WRING
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.