This crossword No. 22516 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22516 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Wacky plan involves spinning a disc : MADCAP
5-across – Edward”s about to receive what”s left over from wreck : DERELICT
9-across – Third generation pianos playing : GRANDSON
10-across – Highly narcotic drug several get into : POTENT
11-across – : INTHEMIDSTOF
13-across – See 11 : LIFE
14-across – Model trains in front of container : TEACHEST
17-across – Lug crone to Eastern city of yore : CARTHAGE
18-across – He”s said to display humility : NEIL
20-across – See 11 : WEAREINDEATH
23-across – Old-fashioned place in France : SQUARE
24-across – Greek character to shock bird : NUTHATCH
25-across – Dandy making unseemly haste to tee off : AESTHETE
26-across – Leaderless war engine impeded by chain : ANKLET
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Bringing a brother round for a hairdo : AFRO
3-down – Season puts silly mid-on in the money : CONDIMENT
4-down – Prepared to split vegetable with old coin : PESETA
5-down – Bow and scrape when news is broadcast between balls : DANCEATTENDANCE
6-down – Voting system is interfering with effective counter-attack : REPRISAL
7-down – Plenty flanking underground flower : LOTUS
8-down – So NHS price-fixing needs regulation? : CENSORSHIP
12-down – Episodic resentment involving nurses : PICARESQUE
15-down – It”s a shrewd idea to gamble on one with a handicap : HUNCHBACK
16-down – Inhabitant of the Orient Express initially chasing graduate on railway : BALINESE
19-down – Invocation causing upturn in cunning little war : MANTRA
21-down – Zoroastrian”s source of Sunday lunch? : ROAST
22-down – Hurt the billman : ACHE
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.