This crossword No. 22987 clues and answers were published on Thu 13 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22987 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Oil producer making composer take a test : BERGAMOT
9-across – Get out of bed for our pot shot? : UPROOT
10-across – Be very heartless in company : BEVY
11-across – Author having go as gender bender : GEORGESAND
12-across – Monster with no drink to knock back? : GORGON
14-across – In harmony with one in a new key : AGREEING
15-across – A painter is artificial, if not natural : FANTIN
17-across – See 15 : LATOUR
20-across – Burn more than a pirate : SEAROVER
22-across – Mock some travellers at Zeebrugge : ERSATZ
23-across – Wicked home in America without love : VILLAINOUS
24-across – Undemonstrative Conservative getting on with it : COLD
25-across – Artist holding recipe for soup : BORSCH
26-across – Bell sounds for fight : DINGDONG
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – We raised a bloom, a monster : WEREWOLF
2-down – Community centre, by golly, oddly unattractive : UGLY
3-down – Shakespearean king’s daughter depicted by Stubbs : IMOGEN
4-down – Womble country : BULGARIA
5-down – Successful prose pours out : PROSPEROUS
6-down – Intrude for an hour mid-morning : HORNIN
8-down – Old headmaster giving Orlando maths revision : THOMAS
13-down – An officer is beginning to train one without special skills : GENERALIST
16-down – Given a shiny loco without any rails : INVEIGHS
18-down – Making a noise? Jolly good! : RATTLING
19-down – See 8 : ARNOLD
21-down – Shakespearean king’s mother going up river or down under : ELINOR
22-down – Moving cautiously, say, to admit a transgression : EASING
24-down – Blighters start to court publicity : CADS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.