This crossword No. 22103 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22103 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Potential extra-mural work? : ARTEX
4-across – Campanologist on holiday? I want a lift : DUMBBELL
8-across – Poetical scene with surprisingly chaste Lord Archer vegetating : THEOLDVICARAGE
10-across – Prophet with female backing: possibly I am he : NEHEMIAH
11-across – See 5 : BEARER
12-across – The Golden River is the way to sound perfumery : ORRISROOT
15-across – Writer retaining accountant is a nut : PECAN
17-across – Cries of triumph make a hash of defences : HAHAS
18-across – Luxurious Italian city during its retrogression : SYBARITIC
19-across – Artist, and so on, female : ETCHER
21-across – Communication about upper-class property : MESSUAGE
24-across – Deciding the price of a container? It’s being expensive : COSTINGAPACKET
25-across – Son – child with boy’s name – where rubber’s rubbed off : SKIDMARK
26-across – Put off before Araucaria’s to decide : DETER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – When some attention is given here to arrangement : ATTENTOTHREE
2-down – Three companions true form security: does it yet 22 1down in 9? : THECHURCH
3-down – Woody tissue is unknown – unknown to the gentleman from Paris : XYLEM
4-down – Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in – they go another way : DEVIATORS
5-down – Nutmeg ground by mother to beadle : MACE
6-down – Say peremptorily: Put up your sword! Right, landlord : BARKEEPER
7-down – King’s rising provided in pub : LAGER
9-down – See 8 : GRANTCHESTER
13-down – Cuts speed to dodge being thought a criminal? : SUSPECTED
14-down – Pill, not half acid – hopefully it’s not with one’s mouth full : TABLETALK
16-down – Transport to the vet, in case there’s a serious illness : CATBASKET
20-down – See 2 : CLOCK
22-down – ____ and, if you win, you may sit : STAND
23-down – Girl with little money – and that obsolete : ANNA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.