This crossword No. 22141 clues and answers were published on Sat 24 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22141 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Fairies going to hospital to die : PERISH
4-across – I live by a sunken valley in part of Europe : IBERIA
9-across – Small Helpings, a book about universal currency, is in verse : NOUVELLECUISINE
10-across – Congress takes on heavyweight churchman : SEXTON
11-across – Geometrical proportions in transport company : BUSINESS
12-across – Drawing of ship replacing recipe in lads’ magazine : ESQUISSE
14-across – Fugitive lacking a point of departure : RUNWAY
15-across – Help back, carrying a good bundle of leaves : TEABAG
18-across – Form of bribery involving plate of fruit : BILBERRY
21-across – Sack for disrupting oil flow outside : SPOLIATE
22-across – A sign of resignation : NOTICE
24-across – Confused flower bearing the dead to The Band From Hell : DISCOMBOBULATED
25-across – A redhead wearing pink beads : ROSARY
26-across – Not a popular success – pasty, gutless and flaccid : FLOPPY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Declare academic has no alternative : PROFESS
2-down – Bolt taking top off shrub : RIVET
3-down – God of the French in the cavity : SILENUS
5-down – Hard man from Uruguay is interrupting literary uncle’s brother : BRUISER
6-down – Place bet on Fiddler”s Wax, an unpromising horse : ROSINANTE
7-down – Mental blank rendering travelling men incontinent? : AMNESIA
8-down – Penny Black in German river turned to stone : PEBBLE
13-down – Lifeline to Mum losing head and feeling sick when carbon replaces oxygen : UMBILICUS
16-down – Without hesitation, perimeter can be made less populous : EMPTIER
17-down – Traditional subject getting right into Greek character and Roman leader : GRAMMAR
18-down – Back without king of northwest France? : BRETON
19-down – Nothing, on reflection, to chuckle about, losing tip of tongue : LINGUAL
20-down – Queen’s introduced to pugilist’s garden feature : ROCKERY
23-down – Vagrant gin-drinking Frenchman : TRAMP
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.