This crossword No. 22690 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22690 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – To have more than one rum, but get tipsy : OUTNUMBER
10-across – First lady in the House made clergyman lose his head : ASTOR
11-across – Oil able to be refined in plant : LOBELIA
12-across – She loved Daddy spreading treacle : ELECTRA
13-across – Emporium demands silence at work : SHOP
14-across – Oscar’s Lady of the Lake? : WINDERMERE
15-across – One and ten are confused, of course : AINTREE
17-across – State day centre : AVERAGE
19-across – The pot man accepts hard work from Rodin : THETHINKER
22-across – Mother’s side seen in skirt : MAXI
23-across – Flushed character calls for player to be dismissed : REDCARD
24-across – Topper finds his talk is rambling : SILKHAT
26-across – Organs with sounds I extracted : NOSES
27-across – Official voice of the cyclist? : SPOKESMAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Very important to make everybody sing about a mad man : WORLDSHATTERING
2-down – Mulish objections raised and natural to follow : STUBBORN
3-down – Proper line for two people fighting : DUEL
4-down – Rough supporter is standing in the avenue : ABRASIVE
5-down – Enthusiast embraced right partner : FRIEND
6-down – Keeping unattached and happy : CAREFREE
7-down – Still figure of Ms Barker describing rubbish : STATUE
8-down – Anti-wrinkling can steer a sister off the rails : CREASERESISTANT
16-down – To prepare, he corrected with eraser : REHEARSE
17-down – Horror of a kind : AVERSION
18-down – What makes a man hate the curse? : ANATHEMA
20-down – In Gospel destined to be first : ELDEST
21-down – Sidney is held up by crackpot who’s naked : NUDIST
25-down – They say faulty actor topped and tailed the worst parts : LEES
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.