This crossword No. 22593 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22593 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Realistic show must be awful crap to amuse : PRACTICAL
6-across – See 1 : CATS
10-across – Sign of opposition to Tory big guns? : LIBRA
11-across – Senior citizens’ concession returned, all with book of 1 6 : OLDPOSSUM
12-across – Crime needs time and cause : TREASON
13-across – Progressing along lines? : INTRAIN
14-across – Opening of epic play – what can hold a note in song, if historic : ARMSANDTHEMAN
17-across – Antique cover – one managed to survive into last century : QUEENVICTORIA
21-across – Cover sheltering most of circus was fatal to Samson : HAIRCUT
22-across – State backing for Irish imprisoned by Hitler : FLORIDA
24-across – Tenure terminable by bullets blasting holes in it? : LEASEHOLD
25-across – Dominant, the leading note of the conductor? : SOLTI
26-across – In and out of season? : TIDE
27-across – Girl playing Mary in religious body : SALLYARMY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – With loads of room for the i in semivowel : PALATIAL
2-down – Essential for lamb learning to walk : AMBLE
3-down – Slides that can’t be hidden? : TRANSPARENCIES
4-down – Many outside Tyneside should be hit on the head : CROWNED
5-down – Having had some lager – dead drunk at the start – his problem? : LADDISH
7-down – Sailor drunk retsina, which I wouldn’t do : ABSTAINER
8-down – Crime is up when you get cash without energy : SIMONY
9-down – With scorn I leave police: you mustn’t worry : CONTEMPTUOUSLY
15-down – Mother’s sovereign keeping one from Channel Island is partisan : MAQUISARD
16-down – Absentee of 1 6 makes a hole under mountain : MACAVITY
18-down – No fishing possible with such a financial result? : NETLOSS
19-down – I don’t believe in God’s last entry into new life : INFIDEL
20-down – House the French talk about : CHALET
23-down – I don’t do much that is of not so much use : IDLER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.