This crossword No. 22668 clues and answers were published on Mon 04 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22668 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Restoration novel in authentic setting : RENEWAL
5-across – Call back to obtain a financial plan : BUDGET
9-across – Start to teach : INITIATE
10-across – Secure now business has increased? : FIRMUP
12-across – Serviceable arms? : WEAPONSOFWAR
15-across – He helps France to be free : BENEFACTOR
17-across – Amazed expression, taken aback by fabulous bird : ROC
19-across – Pixie full of Cockney wellbeing, we hear : ELF
20-across – English naval officer is about to impress : COMMANDEER
22-across – Wait to start a game of ping-pong? : SERVEATTABLE
26-across – Fly through tea break : AVIATE
27-across – Gloomy start to the music : DOWNBEAT
28-across – Hearing is difficult : TRYING
29-across – Place or race for two-year-olds : NURSERY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bar banter : RAIL
2-down – An elevating Kipling poem of unaffected simplicity : NAIF
3-down – Cancel immediately, we hear : WRITEOFF
4-down – Drunk started smoking : LITUP
6-down – International group’s performing in concert : UNISON
7-down – Manager we’d ordered to run the wildlife reserve : GAMEWARDEN
8-down – A way to reproduce band score : TAPERECORD
11-down – Expected to do well at school : INFORM
13-down – Started job making items of aesthetic worth : OBJETSDART
14-down – One class in agreement : UNIFORMITY
16-down – Patches cuffs : CLOUTS
18-down – Hardly a fleet response that’s funny : ONELINER
21-down – Foreign money not returned, but forwarded : SENTON
23-down – A bar erected on quarterdeck : ADORN
24-down – Carnival produces a lot of sound : FETE
25-down – Check part of the rigging : STAY
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.