This crossword No. 22123 clues and answers were published on Sat 03 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22123 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Large pork pie : WHOPPER
5-across – King Edward the Scholar : LEARNED
9-across – After two failures, 13’s half government department: I’m not like 13! : THIRD
10-across – See 9 : TIMELUCKY
11-across – Liberal Dems eat the butter-tree: they do lots of walking : MILLIPEDES
12-across – The saint of the tree ring : ELMO
14-across – 14 good, 8 down best? Here’s no way to start the day : GETOUTOFBED
18-across – Aunt worried about child in league is insincere : PUTSONANACT
21-across – See 14 : SIDE
22-across – See 14 : ONTHEWRONG
25-across – Previously mentioned government department during Greek war needs help : AFORESAID
26-across – Sign of a lot of books : LIBRA
27-across – Half 12’s what three quarters of it is in film production : ELSTREE
28-across – One of the usual? Guess! : SUSPECT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 24 : WITHME
2-down – Bird call around river in Spain : ORIOLE
3-down – 24 putting on more weight after poor start : PADDINGTON
4-down – Produce an extra bond to give some sureties : RETIE
5-down – Italian writer : LAMPEDUSA
6-down – Having skill which can be tolerated after 24 : ABLE
7-down – American coin uttered by Dickens’s family : NICKLEBY
8-down – Endless Edwin’s taking in youth group leader’s drapery : DRYGOODS
13-down – Who lets Australian leaders reform the new state? : SOUTHWALES
15-down – Produced at ticket office to be eaten in dining car? : TRAINFARE
16-down – Turncoat gets a job making tea : APOSTATE
17-down – Where there are horses there are bills, making one 5 across : STUDIOUS
19-down – Roughly mend stone? : COBBLE
20-down – A genuine beginner has time to be shocked : AGHAST
23-down – Abode of the dead, not the second ditto? : HADES
24-down – Please wait for seller, do you understand? : BEAR
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.