This crossword No. 22390 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22390 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – See if the underground’s working in the lab : TESTTUBE
5-across – Secret police’s 26 : STASIS
9-across – Magic herb holding most of French score so as to stir one’s emotions : MOVINGLY
10-across – Heard to tolerate North African port : TOBRUK
12-across – Drunks that are dis-orderly – result goal : LAGER
13-across – Background music to be cut to size? : WALLPAPER
14-across – Sufferer from severe stress over Sun disclosing Western concern : NERVOUSWRECK
18-across – Harpy’s logic’s used by learned traveller : SCHOLARGIPSY
21-across – Dove-like plant, the second to surround walker in water : AQUILEGIA
23-across – See 19 : BROWN
24-across – Bone from the centre? : RADIUS
25-across – Reptile beheaded amid distorted magic : WIZARDRY
26-across – Stop and have a breather, do you hear? : ARREST
27-across – Instead, ancestral afternoon entertainment is provided : TEADANCE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – A front for religion? : TEMPLE
2-down – Keep protecting silver from barbarian : SAVAGE
3-down – Don’t keep a secret and don’t be enclosed at end of ring : TENORBELL
4-down – Live to see the sea seethe less than usual? : BELOWAVERAGE
6-down – There’s too much French about love for soldiers : TROOP
7-down – Provocative person canonised criminal Jack : STRIPPER
8-down – Most worshippers at 1 down : SIKORSKY
11-down – Revealing bad turn onto motorway by one locally born : ILLUMINATIVE
15-down – Instrument for East Anglian water table : WASHBOARD
16-down – A short row before breeze gets up in Cumbria : ASPATRIA
17-down – If the Queen take : SHOULDER
19-down – Prosperous chancellor after holiday in the sun? : GOLDEN
20-down – Catalyst for solvers raised outside New Zealand and setter : ENZYME
22-down – See 12 : LOUTS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.