This crossword No. 22889 clues and answers were published on Tue 22 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22889 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Something devised by many in the French camp : LEGACY
4-across – Champ on motorbike with gas in it. O, calamity! : AGOSTINI
9-across – Take over! Play the music! : RONDO
10-across – Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed : CUSPIDATE
11-across – Such a door on Dick Fosbury’s garage? : UPANDOVER
12-across – C-cast clod : CHURL
13-across – Redeeming feature of 22 3 : SILVERLINING
17-across – Town where Elgar meant very little, right? Wrong! : GREATMALVERN
20-across – Primate uniting church with devil : CHIMP
21-across – Cheese in France: what for? All round nonsense! : ROQUEFORT
23-across – Lay down rough pale stout : POSTULATE
24-across – Cheer up … with our English dead! : ELATE
25-across – It separates arches from cusp and relic : SPANDREL
26-across – More epigrammatical, say, than this oracular medium : PYTHIA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – So, qu’est a manger, Louis? or, perhaps, Is this le chef’s bible? : LAROUSSE
2-down – At day’s end could be all in, say, but rising with a will : GENIALLY
3-down – C-cacophonous cautionary condition : CLOUD
5-down – See 1 down : GASTRONOMIQUE
6-down – Cutter cut between Liverpool and Manchester? : SHIPCANAL
7-down – His ‘air, say, removed with hot wax treatment : ICARUS
8-down – King Mark’s bride upped and left in Day One : ISEULT
10-down – Never a cross word during this match? : CIVILMARRIAGE
14-down – Poet certified Prisoner of Zenda, up or out : EZRAPOUND
15-down – Hat once quietly tipped here? : CENOTAPH
16-down – A dreadful thane! : ANATHEMA
18-down – He sculpted The Speaking Compass. When? : SCOPAS
19-down – A Ford Granada blowout : FIESTA
22-down – One and all so English? On the contrary : EVERY
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.