This crossword No. 22143 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22143 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Dry, needing a beer badly? Then use your loaf : RYEBREAD
5-across – Young reporter holds her beautiful child : CHERUB
9-across – Amphibian exposes speech hindrance behind centre : BULLFROG
10-across – Poet found in waterless hole : DRYDEN
11-across – After a second, playwright embraces small old maid : SPINSTER
12-across – Mimic joins company at the pier : COPIER
14-across – Crook and son bound to be open all hours, perhaps? : CORNERSHOP
18-across – Ground for growing red oranges, maybe : ROSEGARDEN
22-across – Demon alcohol? : SPIRIT
23-across – Scrupulous person wraps a pound in an adhesive label : STICKLER
24-across – Type nearly all of it, Alice : ITALIC
25-across – Uncontrolled road movement means finally fooling around : SKIDDING
26-across – Restriction of free speech about money is a punishment : GATING
27-across – Pupil in drab jacket, being wrong age to cry : GREYCOAT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Being sturdy, go off to catch the bus : ROBUST
2-down – European Community taking refuge in cake : ECLAIR
3-down – Say no to judge with advantage : REFUSE
4-down – Committee meeting in heaven without dishonesty : ABOVEBOARD
6-down – Whoredom causes Henry to go round a lot : HARLOTRY
7-down – Stop being bloody soft! : REDLIGHT
8-down – Not known in cafe, then put out penniless : BANKRUPT
13-down – Does he give a guarantee when dressed in black? : UNDERTAKER
15-down – Compost getting covered up : DRESSING
16-down – Partisan could be an ambitious person : ASPIRANT
17-down – No 1 tin soldier standing up, firing : IGNITION
19-down – Look for Bill in a lazy way, with sourness : ACIDLY
20-down – White man’s in white robe and in love : ALBINO
21-down – Neither Orville nor Wilbur is wrong, we hear : WRIGHT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.