This crossword No. 23018 clues and answers were published on Fri 19 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23018 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Recorder nearly set about cheat : SCRIBE
4-across – Indicate a rough measure : FINGER
9-across – Scene: boozer – Gere playing a skinflint : EBENEZERSCROOGE
10-across – In the latrine, thermometer is lower : NETHER
11-across – Kindly person to see : HUMANELY
12-across – Bone in the doctor’s fish? : STURGEON
14-across – Beads in a sorry state : ROSARY
15-across – Leaves flanking old game : QUOITS
18-across – Following light raise beat softly : REARLAMP
21-across – Bareheaded, going after crooked horse : SKEWBALD
22-across – Pretext about our lot being in the river : EXCUSE
24-across – What’s bestowed on Hood and Thurber, say, in confusion missing the point : BIRTHDAYHONOURS
25-across – Get less recoil : SHRINK
26-across – Happened a month back to the Spanish leading lady : BEFELL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Jeb’s cut out part of sentence : SUBJECT
2-down – Smuggled companion into farm : RANCH
3-down – Fantastic sounds of an Eastern marketplace : BIZARRE
5-down – Johnny-come-lately means resistance : INCOMER
6-down – Evidence of railroad plant : GROUNDSEL
7-down – Soldier going up-river with a pistol : REGULAR
8-down – Old city feature, a ragamuffin : URCHIN
13-down – Soft fall? : RAINWATER
16-down – Relaxes with a French aroma rising : UNKNITS
17-down – Status detailed for substitute : STANDIN
18-down – Look after the ruddy whiskey! : REDEYE
19-down – Dreadful openings to American Westerns – everybody singing open mouthed and enthralled : AWESOME
20-down – Part of Mimi’s tra-la-la-ing is bluster : MISTRAL
23-down – Many adore a little garlic : CLOVE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.