This crossword No. 22172 clues and answers were published on Mon 02 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22172 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Rift created by a broken promise? : BREACH
4-across – Fights are things dogs enjoy : SCRAPS
9-across – Worker right to be bitter sometimes : BEER
10-across – All union members finished business for the day : CLOSEDSHOP
11-across – An inventor having no team for back-up : EDISON
12-across – It comes under a general vote in the Commons : DIVISION
13-across – Implement for eating meat paste? : CHOPSTICK
15-across – Washington provided for homeless child : WAIF
16-across – Break seal to get drinks : ALES
17-across – The growth of the fairytale : BEANSTALK
21-across – May be seen round the trunk of this tree, perhaps : TEESHIRT
22-across – Quiet seaman gets by, looking scruffy : SHABBY
24-across – Accommodation for a model family : DOLLSHOUSE
25-across – Come up against an objection : ABUT
26-across – Back me to supervise relief work : EMBOSS
27-across – Capital A followed by S? : ATHENS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – The scope of the Bard? : BREADTH
2-down – Is paid pots, they say : EARNS
3-down – Fruit for the shy : COCONUT
5-down – Equal to both parts of 13 : CLEAVE
6-down – One who helps satanists out : ASSISTANT
7-down – There’s no performance of The Peacock : SHOWOFF
8-down – What a travelling orchestra goes on? : CONDUCTEDTOUR
14-down – Two irons used by journalists together : PRESSCLUB
16-down – Holding soldiers up in a unit is a bloomer : ANEMONE
18-down – New rise just coming into effect : NASCENT
19-down – A sailor scowls about Herculean tasks : LABOURS
20-down – Figures in the University Boat Race : EIGHTS
23-down – Lower in a mathematical scale : ABASE
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.