This crossword No. 22502 clues and answers were published on Wed 24 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22502 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – 12 and 11’s what the NHS provides : CAREFREE
5-across – 12 and 11’s – understand? – a debtors’ prison : FOLLOW
9-across – See 5 : THEFLEET
10-across – 12 and 11’s gone to the pub, it doesn”t say where : TOPHAT
12-across – Dancer and journalist held by dreadlocked sectary during shooting : FREDASTAIRE
15-across – Share of punishment? : WHACK
17-across – Pole with gong hiding among the bedclothes? : NIGHTGOWN
18-across – Person of ideas: the alternative is HM : THEORISER
19-across – All about nothing with one to finish, as they say : SUOMI
20-across – Possibly Jasper National Park : YELLOWSTONE
24-across – Richard’s pipes? : BRIERS
25-across – Champion of women has Tracey in hand : FEMINIST
26-across – Electronically summons student among similar sounds : BLEEPS
27-across – Islands disturbing lagoon where magnetic is not true : ISOGONAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Disinherit youngster when upper-class humorist, getting a bit of a laugh, came in and died : CUTOFFWITH
2-down – Sir Alec was to dance with Madame Peron, also Mr Heath : REELEVATED
3-down – Went down with a guy : FELLA
4-down – Take the trouble to note reflexes, perhaps : EXERTONESELF
6-down – Liftman keeps registered choices for procreation of snails : OVOTESTIS
7-down – The French take little time at the oven : LEHR
8-down – T is for Tyler, according to the inventor : WATT
11-down – Dancer and spirit wander in – depart for French department : GINGERROGERS
13-down – Engine for crazy poet : LOCOMOTION
14-down – Limited one sort of surgeon – that’s by the way : INCIDENTAL
16-down – For overhead security the king and I take the limits of Barnaby and his raven : KIRBYGRIP
21-down – 12 and 11’s second side on the clock? : SWING
22-down – See 1 : ABOB
23-down – See 21 : TIME
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.