This crossword No. 22384 clues and answers were published on Wed 05 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22384 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Embodiment of male reserve gets shot : COCKSHY
5-across – Don’t allow us to write in Black Hills state : SUSPEND
9-across – Lettuce’s wrinkle? There’s much more underneath : TIPOFTHEICEBERG
10-across – Fairy’s sign with pound for shilling : ARIEL
11-across – Having downed tools, down tools to hit harder : OUTSTRIKE
12-across – Don’t stop monarch entertaining another Poe, for example : KEEPGOING
14-across – Standard American’s a sham : BOGUS
15-across – Excite love clad in reddish brown : ROUST
16-across – Four-letter word causes great problem in public transport : TETRAGRAM
18-across – Accompaniments of roast turkey on barbershop floor? : TRIMMINGS
21-across – Graduate’s back with another dance : SAMBA
22-across – Refinery, as it were, in … in trying to catch … a lot of fish : FINISHINGSCHOOL
23-across – French town – here lace beer at sergeant’s direction : ALENCON
24-across – Not so many letters from canal builder : LESSEPS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Model way to be unaccompanied in Kipling’s story : CATWALK
2-down – Prisoners at play? : CAPTIVEAUDIENCE
3-down – Accompaniment of 6 19, downy like a feather : SOFTLIGHT
4-down – A lout, some say a hoodlum : YAHOO
5-down – Insolvent soldier raised to height – very touching! : SKINTIGHT
6-down – Guardian entry into arranged course : SWEET
7-down – Flower : EVENINGPRIMROSE
8-down – Go off and do excavations in the matter of a ship : DIGRESS
13-down – Purpose of being taut as reported : INTENTION
14-down – Supporters like this and like greens : BRASSICAS
15-down – Traitor finds Our Thing leaderless, which takes the biscuit : RATAFIA
17-down – Spots setter, one without sense, including the French : MEASLES
19-down – Notes sound on 1 down, say, almost unfit : MUSIC
20-down – Watch fifth change to second seal : SIGIL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.