This crossword No. 22867 clues and answers were published on Thu 26 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22867 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Capuletti, Verona’s lost love, consigned to some risky stake : VENTURE
5-across – See 1 : CAPITAL
9-across – Playwright breathing flame : SYNGE
10-across – Live with past record? Fail, and You will ___! : BEHISTORY
11-across – Character discerned in one’s claret, some say : BLOODTYPE
12-across – From here, Henry’s first extracted a gas : ARGON
13-across – Principle of working Protestants: Call back in an hour? Quite the reverse! : ETHIC
15-across – Wild colobus’s hard conveyance for the little monkeys! : SCHOOLBUS
18-across – Both parts of Ireland study peace proposal : EIRENICON
19-across – Ugly Philistine bit of Doric decoration : GLYPH
21-across – Baroque bairns sculpted by plumber’s mate, say? : PUTTI
23-across – Head of East Anglian water plant? : BROADBEAN
25-across – Clay in suspension, I see, is down to earth : REALISTIC
26-across – A writer of asinine peregrinations, ‘e’s included French city : ARLES
27-across – Prime Minister tanned by Wallis, perhaps : STANLEY
28-across – See 27 : BALDWIN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Spites Blix over possible arms sales, say? : VISIBLE
2-down – Name one Old Testament woman: nobody else! : NONEOTHER
3-down – One blocking smells from Danube? Not a chance! : UBEND
4-down – Early stages of development bill for botanical protection : EMBRYOSAC
5-down – UNISON’s partner said to keep the teapot warm : COHSE
6-down – Go up, up with Henry, in song : PUSHALONG
7-down – A thtrain on beach bums? : THONG
8-down – Discover how to achieve immortality in wet cement? Bless me! : LAYONES
14-down – Putting the pole first, Fuchs? Pass out! Get festive! : CONVIVIAL
16-down – Hot, frenzied moans at back almost reversing taxi : HANSOMCAB
17-down – Gas pressure principle, by including oxygen as well, failing : BOYLESLAW
18-down – See 1 : EXPORTS
20-down – See 8 : HANDSON
22-down – Papal dignity could be studded with ice, if it is turned on a heathen god : TIARA
23-down – Crazy chiropteran Nora? : BATTY
24-down – Drag dr-drill : DRAWL
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.