This crossword No. 22681 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22681 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Bit of caterpillar? Part filling for empty pig : PROLEG
5-across – Earlier audience’s support : BEFORE
8-across – A problem caused by overexposing paper flower : SUNBURN
9-across – Initially, time zone in country can get one wrong-footed : WALTZES
11-across – Corporation boss revealed as radio neglecter, potentially bringing in revenue, primarily? : DIRECTORGENERAL
12-across – Yob to embrace, wanting love : THUG
13-across – Contradictory girl I had rejected – naughty liar! : DISSIMILAR
17-across – Now hardly a revolutionary artist? : ANDYWARHOL
18-across – Oriental soldiers providing rare protection : EGIS
20-across – Don’t flog cartoonist’s caricature – hide away! : KEEPALOWPROFILE
23-across – Arrange to get sample revealing disease in horse : DOURINE
24-across – Spooner’s to stash away a little bit from the winning amount : JACKPOT
25-across – What may bring illness to place : PLAGUE
26-across – Student dashes off line to get lucrative job : EARNER
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Grabbing woman, rector and canon behave promiscuously : RUNAROUND
3-down – Meal to seal a book’s introduction to the world? : LAUNCH
4-down – Man with craft working old region : GONDOLIER
5-down – Get hairy before court appearance? : BEWIG
6-down – Designation of computer characters mostly photographed, including girl : FILENAME
7-down – One who exalts, it’s said, a traditional implement : RAZOR
8-down – Distracted team given homily to listen to : SIDETRACKED
10-down – Sense of own dignity: less perfect, possibly : SELFRESPECT
14-down – English people’s joy excited jumper : SLOPPYJOE
15-down – Appealing desperately for a little extra in the Bronx? : LAGNIAPPE
16-down – Rock is without musical taste – and there’s bad language : SWEARING
19-down – I’ll deal with pipe, supplying special cover to insulate one : VOICER
21-down – She qualified – has uniform : EQUAL
22-down – Plant you fed to cattle mostly : OXEYE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.