This crossword No. 22145 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22145 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – His written grammar was exemplary: spoken, less tasteful : FOWLER
5-across – The Camptown plum puller whose stock has points taken off? : DEHORNER
9-across – Nimrod dished avec vin blanc et champignons : CHASSEUR
10-across – One for sorrow among the chattering classes : MAGPIE
11-across – Cracked Matterhorn with Roman Catholic artillery : TRENCHMORTAR
13-across – Rugby training switched in the country : PERU
14-across – No chicken with turnip? : OLDTIMER
17-across – Carelessly applying make-up and hairstyle : SLAPBANG
18-across – Lister’s work applying oxygen to suppuration : OPUS
20-across – Dressing so flashily no use in new penthouse suite development : UPTOTHENINES
23-across – Meeting one’s fate in Switzerland? O, fate! : CLOTHO
24-across – Herald of St Swithun’s reign might ordain priest for sacrifice : RAINDROP
25-across – Alter ego literally left without memory ?- it’s the drink! : HYDROMEL
26-across – Officer contributing to Dolly Varden”s ignominy : ENSIGN
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Two revolutionaries gamely throwing projectiles from here : OCHE
3-down – Bridge players’ call to judgement? : LASTTRUMP
4-down – Thatcher as Red Queen absorbing energy : REEDER
5-down – One might show contrition for auntie’s bloomers, perhaps, and glee with ITC error : DIRECTORGENERAL
6-down – So with Mom”s apple pie, weed out what makes me mad : HOMEMADE
7-down – He’s OK : ROGER
8-down – Morecambe and Wise, we hear, sag from this blooming characterisation : ERICACEOUS
12-down – Faced paralysis, so possibly left bypass hell without beginning : BELLSPALSY
15-down – Cromwell’s cavalry fell, as it were : IRONSIDES
16-down – Some queue outside here to displace Archimedes? : BATHROOM
19-down – Donkey, for one, bearing trap in Tyneside : ENGINE
21-down – Swimmer more steamed up in Stepney : OTTER
22-down – Chinese family worth £100,000? : TONG
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.