This crossword No. 21909 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 21909 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – It’s tricky when hot : POTATO
4-across – Shall I finish with half a dram? : WILLIAM
9-across – EC protocols had to be redrafted : CHOCOLATE
10-across – Gas enveloped this Roman : CHOCS
11-across – Notes negative feedback : AFTON
12-across – Bust heads? : CHESTNUTS
13-across – Swell to look over? : TOFFEES
15-across – Treatment for a bitten off tongue : NOUGAT
17-across – Sometimes a mickey-taking society … : MOUSSE
19-across – … filled old education department with fury : DRAGEES
22-across – Plus fours: five of them : ANDTWENTY
24-across – See 9 : DROPS
26-across – Cardinal cunning? : HEART
27-across – Hackman and First Lady hugged Violet : GENEVIEVE
28-across – Pages engaged by the Lords : PEPPERS
29-across – Read out document : DREAMS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Naughty dog, maybe, swal-lowed cricket club article : PECCANT
2-down – Red’s first in every French rainbow? : TROUT
3-down – Adjust short lens? There’s no point! : THORNLESS
4-down – Girl’s bathing in re-bottled wine … in what? : WHEREIN
5-down – Authorised lecturer, here for Proust on Time : LICIT
6-down – Built into a clue to give one the needle? : INOCULATE
7-down – Profane Calliope, for one, is taken in : MISUSE
8-down – A desperate chap takes up little time for capers : DANCES
14-down – It brightens up bad French party turning into a fiasco : FLOODLAMP
16-down – Pole vaulters aim for the door : UPANDOVER
18-down – Measures taken by printers seen working around old hack : ENNAGES
19-down – Older members accomplish their desires : DOYENS
20-down – They tend to involve one in unnatural stress : SISTERS
21-down – Count the receipts from first class? A pushover! : CASHUP
23-down – A go-between for smokers taking Ecstasy : WITHE
25-down – Work : OPERA
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.