This crossword No. 22201 clues and answers were published on Sat 05 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22201 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – He lets no thin diva type forget last aria, perhaps in Patience : THEOPERA
5-across – Let oneself down, on the face of it : ABSEIL
9-across – See 1 : AINTOVER
10-across – See 1 : TILTHE
12-across – Outback worker needed: ‘s Mon Oncle available? : STATIONHAND
15-across – Take home British, but not English, figure : RHOMB
17-across – A lot to ask of a Lilliputian : TALLORDER
18-across – Pungent plant returned by river with railed transport : SMARTWEED
19-across – Be affected by food from a runcible spoon : MINCE
20-across – Catches the City unwilling to provide no life cover : HEARSECLOTH
24-across – He admitted all to his circus except miners : BARNUM
25-across – Conclude with one or less : INFERIOR
26-across – Agitation raised in the 16 : LATHER
27-across – When Guardian readers include Dome developers: what the devil! : ASMODEUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Start of the Rangers’ collapse; Saints encroach : TRANSGRESS
2-down – O, Anna Neagle! You hadn’t a dreadful shape like this : ENNEAGONAL
3-down – Remind me, wasn’t he once the Italian PM? : PRODI
4-down – Kicking oneself in the gaudery, perhaps : RUEINGTHEDAY
6-down – One’s sting is in the hell-broth’s mild brown brew : BLINDWORM
7-down – Albert Einstein’s part in designing figure for the Folies-Bergere : ERTE
8-down – Careen this emblem : LEEK
11-down – See 1 across : FATLADYSINGS
13-down – O, he’s the fellow, they say, to chance upon some toothsome relic : ODONTOLITE
14-down – Saps environmentally friendly fog warnings : GREENHORNS
16-down – Where Beau Nash was immersed in his country residence? : BATHHOUSE
21-down – Firm about revolutionary principles : CREDO
22-down – Fourth World figure in Matabeleland : ABEL
23-down – Pack member putting one right in the club : BRAT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.