This crossword No. 22628 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22628 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Model sermon could be a fearsome thing : MONSTER
5-across – Firm’s custom is to have a single partner : COHABIT
9-across – Type we need information about : GENRE
10-across – One’s words may lead to action : SLANDERER
11-across – Queue at frontier – luggage may be near the limit : BORDERLINECASE
13-across – Demonstration by Consignia? … : EXPO
14-across – … Tarry – stuff could be in the post : CREOSOTE
17-across – They may have you covered, but certainly won’t initiate fire : INSURERS
18-across – School education first to be given weight : ETON
21-across – With abstruse reading, impress the highest in Oxford : DREAMINGSPIRES
23-across – Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction : CATALYTIC
24-across – Paper peculatio : THEFT
25-across – A sin soldiers left behind as part of cleansing : LUSTRAL
26-across – Confused model with a right to a peerage : EARLDOM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Beaks begin as conveyers of offerings : MAGI
2-down – Components Simon mislaid, lacking responsibility : NONCOMPOSMENTIS
3-down – Die in attempt to get with it : TRENDY
4-down – Girl turns up in right place for vacation : RESORT
5-down – Ravel : CLAVIERS
6-down – Hard boundary, hard to go over – it’s prickly : HEDGEHOG
7-down – Hear about fiddle playing for a funeral : BURIALOFTHEDEAD
8-down – Erstwhile bit of an opera : THREEPENNY
12-down – Time, perhaps, for police raid : PERIODICAL
15-down – One discontented king outdoing Uriah? : GRUMBLER
16-down – Time for parental preparation? : PRENATAL
19-down – I forgot to say, youth club leaders may explode, so mind! : PSYCHE
20-down – A flyer cut short by drink : BITTER
22-down – Half the alphabet is minute : ATOM
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.