This crossword No. 22264 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22264 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Women steering at sea or hoofing it? : TILLERGIRLS
9-across – It’s child’s play to look endlessly about : PEEKABO
10-across – Two kings accepting an order : RANKING
11-across – General in command in Northern Ireland going back to Ulster to an assumed identity : INCOGNITO
12-across – Old King’s Counsellors providing wit and wisdom : WITAN
13-across – French good taste can cause pain : GOUT
14-across – Large farm spread round king’s recognition signal : MARKERFLAG
16-across – Sounds like the late Vice President’s political philosophy has to do with Arabic or decimal counting : ALGORISMIC
19-across – A golf player : GARY
21-across – Boast, they say, about someone from Zagreb : CROAT
22-across – Roundabout long since redesigned : ENCLOSING
24-across – Follow the leftie at a gentle pace : DOGTROT
25-across – Cleaned up, as a parasite did : SPONGED
26-across – Put on important hat for the races : DONKEYDERBY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Attila or Tamburlaine, perhaps: of course, he’d g-got a divine means of punishment : THESCOURGEOFGOD
2-down – Force nail back into Chinese measurement : LIANG
3-down – Unusual collection made when late partner cut one coat : EXOTICA
4-down – Grouse about crook getting the George Cross : GORCOCK
5-down – Wretched fellow on call’s got a fungal infection : RINGWORM
6-down – Like a star, travelling singly round wreck of Titanic with two students : SCINTILLATINGLY
7-down – Make a confession about advertising some time before the summer : SPRING
8-down – Gone back round the child’s horse, they say, to get a drink : EGGNOG
15-down – Siblings who can sometimes be exclusive? : BRETHREN
16-down – Four-bar cadenza containing an overarching passage : ARCADE
17-down – Peter’s confused about 100 staff : SCEPTRE
18-down – Cleanly cut: it sounds just the opposite of very large : INCISED
20-down – Words to invoke the old divinities in the theatre? : YEGODS
23-down – Sanctity’s sweet smell? : ODOUR
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.