This crossword No. 22648 clues and answers were published on Fri 11 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22648 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Channel Island lodges Scots abroad in Brooke’s old place : SARAWAK
5-across – Outlet that’s other than dry : HYDRANT
9-across – Bats last in Oval side : ASTON
10-across – Place for bottling plant : TERRARIUM
11-across – Rap record? : CRIMESHEET
12-across – Laundry used to be hard : WASH
14-across – Sweet God to venerate clutching maiden : MARSHMALLOW
18-across – One foot before another, having made it through hangover : AFTEREFFECT
21-across – Describes two kinds of shot and is stunning : DROP
22-across – General use for seaweed that turns in cash : PREVALENCE
25-across – One race after sport’s collapse : RUINATION
26-across – See 9 : VILLA
27-across – Wage-earners on this were still drunk, according to Spooner : PAYLIST
28-across – Mark of the Beast? : SCRATCH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sitting position using energy instead of time : SEANCE
2-down – Faulty article about to go in sale : RETAIL
3-down – Tourist location needs no more than a key to open : WINDERMERE
4-down – Jack off in old swinger’s boat : KETCH
5-down – Smith’s product worn in a red-light district, they say? : HORSESHOE
6-down – See 6 : DEAD
7-down – A long way to take taxi that’s well-disposed : AMICABLE
8-down – Cat with a predator’s weapon : TOMAHAWK
13-down – Able to take against project : CANTILEVER
15-down – One seeking to change upper class needs outside support : REFORMIST
16-down – It’s often near the green belt – also in it : SANDTRAP
17-down – Crime of being paralytic, or tanked up? : ATROCITY
19-down – Chain a leaping deer when hunter’s heart is pounding : ANKLET
20-down – Separate from the cad : DETACH
23-down – Body spaces, barring the East : VENUS
24-down – Verse about this island would be put in words : BALI
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.