This crossword No. 2999 clues and answers were published on Sun 14 Mar 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 2999 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Fit to eat from deli? Be prepared! : EDIBLE
4-across – Get along somehow in motorcycle trial : SCRAMBLE
10-across – No longer needed to go on and on about backing exposed duke : REDUNDANT
11-across – Excuse used by criminal I birched : ALIBI
12-across – Beginning to treat crank : STARTINGHANDLE
14-across – Policeman, fellow I wanted in newly-formed force : OFFICER
16-across – A scandal right at the heart of unfashionable period : OUTRAGE
17-across – Animal, last one in Brewer and dictionary, always : ROEDEER
19-across – Type of sandwich to eat is ‘spread’ : TOASTIE
21-across – There are pictures to be seen behind closed doors in one : ADVENTCALENDAR
24-across – Council’s last to reduce rent : LEASE
25-across – Plastered notices round front of orphanage, first in Milton Keynes? : ECONOMIST
26-across – I, a setter, edited paper : TREATISE
27-across – Key, for example, secreted in advance : LEGEND
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Peers go out together in part of London : EARLSCOURT
2-down – At home, financial assistance is raised for an Asian country : INDIA
3-down – Harebrained, messing about in a cult : LUNATIC
5-down – Might Sweeney Todd have been caught red-handed wielding one? : CUTTHROATRAZOR
6-down – Opposed commander in street : AGAINST
7-down – Excellent flatfish – a number spotted in it : BRILLIANT
8-down – Extremely unpleasant in the village : EVIL
9-down – Warren is worried, shows concern about head of really famous film studio : WARNERBROTHERS
13-down – Famous bracelet mislaid by editor : CELEBRATED
15-down – Bird – cuckoo flies mostly by day to Far East : FIELDFARE
18-down – Mount always best without blinkers? : EVEREST
20-down – Woodland plant – one bearing exotic name : ANEMONE
22-down – Run sleazy bar bordering river : DRIVE
23-down – Fool about on set : CLOT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.