This crossword No. 22305 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Sep 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22305 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Mergenthaler’s kind of floor covering? : LINOTYPE
5-across – Current account – one with a network of branches : ACACIA
9-across – Working man involved with bike plant : CYCLAMEN
10-across – Grab genetic material – sleep around : KIDNAP
12-across – It’s most alien to a skinhead : TRESS
13-across – First person singular? : SOLIPSIST
14-across – It enables the a/c to be cooked : BALANCESHEET
18-across – Chisel wielded by engineer, one in charge of the Dome : BRUNELLESCHI
21-across – Doctor finds the point, right in the back : REGISTRAR
23-across – Spectrum of colour, lacking nothing : RANGE
24-across – Economic blunder – company lost receipts : INCOME
25-across – Mark of fashionable writer : INSCRIBE
26-across – Where in a leg injury cure might need decapitation? : EALING
27-across – One being thus delayed, departs alone : ISOLATED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Place where officer follows separatists rising : LOCATE
2-down – Mistakenly liken cent to 5 : NICKEL
3-down – Common rail experience without one to explain : TRANSLATE
4-down – Where hacks attend recruit starting to row in boat : PRESSGALLERY
6-down – Teacher held by cop and had up for lacking flexibility : CRISP
7-down – Jails, as opposed to non-custodial penalties : CONFINES
8-down – Craving a soft little foreign female … : APPETITE
11-down – … jumps at a girl down under : ALICESPRINGS
15-down – Odds on Charlie after operation coming round? : SPHERICAL
16-down – Unfortunately over a bit prematurely? : ABORTIVE
17-down – Almost certain state soldier’s in this kind of spirit : SURGICAL
19-down – Charge on land almost brought to court : INDICT
20-down – Caption, for example, inserted in advance : LEGEND
22-down – He’s wrong to get the doctor in : SIMON
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.