This crossword No. 852 clues and answers were published on Sun 22 Jan 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Speedy Crossword No. 852 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Resigned : CALLEDITQUITS
8-across – Biblical high priest : ELI
9-across – Gun dog : RETRIEVER
10-across – Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip : SRILANKA
11-across – —- Cantona, Manchester Utd favourite of the 1990s : ERIC
13-across – Thickset : STOCKY
14-across – Genre of slow-tempo Latin music associated with Spain and Cuba : BOLERO
16-across – Make a mental or written reminder : NOTE
17-across – Wholesale slaughter : MASSACRE
20-across – Tiny airer? : ITINERARY
21-across – Blemish : MAR
22-across – Tenaciously, with great determination : LIKEGRIMDEATH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Ancient war game whose name may have derived for the Persian for ‘king’ : CHESS
2-down – Grossly exaggerated or over-emphasised something : LAIDITONTHICK
3-down – Allocates; reserves : EARMARKS
4-down – New recruits : INTAKE
5-down – Bon mot : QUIP
6-down – In writing, it may open up a quotation : INVERTEDCOMMA
7-down – Hot Saharan wind blowing into the Mediterranean : SIROCCO
12-down – Out of true : BOSSEYED
13-down – Timepiece read by the shadow a gnomon casts : SUNDIAL
15-down – 50th state of the USA : HAWAII
18-down – Badger’s burrow : EARTH
19-down – Alban —-, composer of the incomplete opera ‘Lulu’ : BERG
This crossword has in total 24 where 12 are across and 12 are down.