This crossword No. 22881 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22881 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Rabbit eating stew reportedly turns pink : ANGOSTURA
6-across – 3 heard in 5 : WOOL
10-across – Permission to go : LEAVE
11-across – Beast finds coin opening with hard black spike : SLOTHBEAR
12-across – Where cadets learn to get some help, returning many times : OCTUPLE
13-across – Spirit-backed races on brick : FLETTON
14-across – Crown in Chelsea endlessly in trouble: title lapsed in 1960 : NEWSCHRONICLE
17-across – Royal establishment keeps right to own public relations company vessel : CROWNPRINCESS
21-across – Conductor using buzzer at church before 12 : BEECHAM
22-across – Deprived of intelligence : WITHOUT
24-across – Duke John swallows a fish : ELLINGTON
25-across – Flier : BATHE
26-across – Makes no real attempt to eat oysters – not the lot : TOYS
27-across – King’s held a fool and queen a dish : CASSEROLE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Drinks ____ – pegs as well as holes? : ALLROUND
2-down – Outsize specimen of soldier insect : GIANT
3-down – See 5 : SHEEPSCLOTHING
4-down – Abjure blue berets? : UNSWEAR
5-down – Disguised villain goes 20 22 10 with flippers for Uriah, namely – see article : AWOLFIN
7-down – Obvious where we are? Far from it : OVERTHERE
8-down – Cat grasping a rabbit’s head needs a breather : LARYNX
9-down – Force runner to be main painter : CHIEFCONSTABLE
15-down – Playwright hesitating between tree and meadow? : WYCHERLEY
16-down – A job the Guardian’s producing, so to speak : ASITWERE
18-down – Neither wet nor dry, which stirs the cat in me : NEMATIC
19-down – Success among revolutionaries gets you back to the start : REWINDS
20-down – Jack told to go away : ABSENT
23-down – XL, to utter an unfashionable note : OUTDO
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.