This crossword No. 22734 clues and answers were published on Wed 22 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22734 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Camp with old shopping centre fitted into angle : FOPPISH
5-across – Worry about horse slaughter : CARNAGE
9-across – Ornament to lug round : EARRING
10-across – O!, I cried, entangled with heatherlike leaves : ERICOID
11-across – Refreshment for theologian in sports arena : ICEDDRINK
12-across – Sugar the supplier initially omitted to provide : CATER
13-across – Habitual resort to elite name when sending round something appealing for donations : HAUNT
15-across – Girl’s fellow making tracks? So what’s new? : DISCOVERY
17-across – Deduction in barrier protection for the Queen : INFERENCE
19-across – Dumbhead! What? Covering point with profundity? : DEPTH
22-across – Stubble that brings back blemishes : STRAW
23-across – Old film buff is heard wanting time to creep : SYCOPHANT
25-across – Return perished, clutching a fag, having lost gravity and needing help to hear : DEAFAID
26-across – Genuine performance by young player : INGENUE
27-across – Beast! Goddess returns the baking dish! : RAMEKIN
28-across – No tears when gypsy gentleman appears in a new colour : DRYEYED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sounding catarrhal, perhaps, like Rubens? : FLEMISH
2-down – Upstart detailed usual meeting place : PARVENU
3-down – Painter turned up, engrossing one in a long story : ILIAD
4-down – Strangely daring, he’d been beset by women : HAGRIDDEN
5-down – Caught smell of river : CREEK
6-down – Sun-god incorporated garish weather indicator : RAINCLOUD
7-down – A job for the French preacher : APOSTLE
8-down – Old king, being in the wrong, yelled : ELDERLY
14-down – Having to return the toss may lead to atavism : THROWBACK
16-down – Not one’s own favourites picked up by companion I loved extremely : STEPCHILD
17-down – Has be been charged with knowing too much? : INSIDER
18-down – Winchester strict about organ : FIREARM
20-down – Patently, it could be any pill : PLAINLY
21-down – Two articles in a carrier? What an impetuous person! : HOTHEAD
23-down – Chair removed from a Chinese dance-hall : SEDAN
24-down – The pain’s about over, my little man! : PYGMY
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.