This crossword No. 22420 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22420 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Delight in being on board, with drinks : SWALLOWS
5-across – Produces personal beads for old soldiers : SWEATS
9-across – Departures to see Mona Lisa taken out around end of Louvre : ANOMALIES
11-across – D note wrong? Try this bowing aid : RESIN
12-across – Expert on the rocks in one kingdom : MINERALOGIST
15-across – Dash from the lane : ELAN
16-across – Self-regard of youth who found himself winning on the pools? : NARCISSISM
18-across – Huntingdon, perhaps, could have been one in a hundred : COUNTYTOWN
19-across – Change course in desert : TURN
21-across – Perverted senorita game to join couple in this household : MENAGEATROIS
24-across – The French hail and farewell : LEAVE
25-across – Uproot a tree, acid-damaged : ERADICATE
26-across – Loath to write a poem? : AVERSE
27-across – Second horn’s baggage : STRUMPET
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Tarry rope : STAY
2-down – Rising star of the county : AVON
3-down – Principal shortened introduction to subject : LEADIN
4-down – Footballers here wealthier than management? : WHITEHARTLANE
6-down – Old soldier’s row over the cavalry : WARHORSE
7-down – Encouraging suspect given new start : AUSPICIOUS
8-down – Affected holiness my canonist corrected : SANCTIMONY
10-down – Old Bill’s ferreting licence? : SEARCHWARRANT
13-down – Pleasing thing to amble out for a dessert : PEACHMELBA
14-down – Malice aunt spread to denigrate : CALUMNIATE
17-down – This disease of horses throws one off balance : STAGGERS
20-down – Setting in the middle of Paris : MILIEU
22-down – Victor, leaving hospital, is affected : CAMP
23-down – Bag to make one’s cup of tea : BENT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.