This crossword No. 22356 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22356 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Where academics relax with copy of The Predicament : SCRAPE
4-across – Strategy requiring force field : GAMBIT
9-across – Workers’ assembly’s turned tail : SCUT
10-across – Ministers’ unlucky choice? : SHORTSTRAW
11-across – Quarter turn in the river : FOURTH
12-across – Mnemonist recalls legendary footballer and hard worker : ELEPHANT
13-across – Get a grip, seizing backside and doubling up : CRUMPLING
15-across – Largely unrefined filth : CRUD
16-across – Censors wisecracks : GAGS
17-across – A second volume about Stewart’s sporting venue : ASTRODOME
21-across – Unremitting claptrap on the way in : CONSTANT
22-across – Take time to feel at home : BELONG
24-across – Minute investigator of comic prose : MICROSCOPE
25-across – Cold, cold belly : CRAW
26-across – Afterthought about material medical support : SPLINT
27-across – Twirl ponytail in the fireplace : GYRATE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Support that’s thoroughly clean holding copper up : SUCCOUR
2-down – Turner’s alternative to compost : ROTOR
3-down – Mathematician drinking hogshead during Passover : PASCHAL
5-down – Learnt about capital growth : ANTLER
6-down – Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred : BUTCHERED
7-down – Rock ‘n’ roller to fall in, getting drilled : TRAINED
8-down – Updating original sin in reasonable quantities : MODERNISATION
14-down – Expert on wind securing silver : MAGISTRAL
16-down – Architect King George I kept in work : GROPIUS
18-down – Gemstone with 60% beryl content is pretty tough : RUBBERY
19-down – Also covered by partner’s authorisation : MANDATE
20-down – Quietly firing the incumbent : PARSON
23-down – Fabric that’s fairly crass, but not entirely : LYCRA
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.