This crossword No. 22540 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22540 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Haste leading to downfall : PRECIPITATION
10-across – Is on a par with study about fancy dress : CAPARISON
11-across – Permission to resign : LEAVE
12-across – Nothing green is apparent : OVERT
13-across – Never still on world body’s day off : UNRESTING
14-across – US miler collapses in chaos : MISRULE
16-across – Real ink may be thinner : LANKIER
18-across – Art movement is mad about assent in Russia : DADAISM
20-across – Clergyman is to run about town in Italy : TREVISO
21-across – Self-restrained mood at tea break : TEMPERATE
23-across – Memorial to a dog : CAIRN
24-across – Gorse destroyed by monsters : OGRES
25-across – Recent pie cooked over middle point : EPICENTRE
26-across – Officially approve their bedrolls for show : BLESSTHEBRIDE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Restrained eastern journalists about colour : REPRESSED
3-down – Artist right about bird : COROT
4-down – Drunken sot in chaste pose : POSTURE
5-down – Part of plant I lent doctor by mistake : TENDRIL
6-down – Speak logically, though seen to be upset after discussions : TALKSENSE
7-down – Took a piece, or part, of animal : OKAPI
8-down – Settlement in lodgings : ACCOMMODATION
9-down – Two soldiers, for example, rising against detection equipment : GEIGERCOUNTER
15-down – Worlds depicted in one piece of poetry about sunburst : UNIVERSES
17-down – Tied it in a knot and began : INITIATED
19-down – Average set turning out to be least generous : MEANEST
20-down – If you want it, ask a policeman if he has it : THETIME
22-down – The point of a story or lesson : MORAL
23-down – Shout for food : CHEER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.