This crossword No. 22487 clues and answers were published on Sat 06 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22487 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Icy maid on LSD – Why this tune? Knight composed it : LUCYINTHESKY
8-across – In haste, here’s dishonestly obtained pay : HOTFOOT
9-across – Ring’s rubbish for protecting Madame Petite : GROMMET
11-across – One turns to go off a hill : ROTATOR
12-across – Escape by water to begin reference : SEEPAGE
13-across – It’s copped by the star and she’s got a shiner! : SUSAN
14-across – In possession, but in touch : ONTHEBALL
16-across – Restraint shown by character or in speaking : IRONSTONE
19-across – ____ hates Castile – he’d abandoned it : ELCID
21-across – A house I need, if I celebrate houses : EDIFICE
23-across – Actor at table during break hems mum in : CUSHING
24-across – A king repeatedly returns and falls : NIAGARA
25-across – Raise tax in general after energy input : ELEVATE
26-across – See 1 : WITHDIAMONDS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Understatement – not a dram remains round the edge! : LITOTES
2-down – Prisoner accepts defeat, being in the soup : CROUTON
3-down – Interior of 1 torn badly in soccer cup competition : INTERTOTO
4-down – Keep track of American banker in Europe : TAGUS
5-down – Aged uncle’s retained mechanical memory of a rhetorical question : EROTEME
6-down – Mowgli’s top chum constricted by snake in African city : KAMPALA
7-down – Don’t kiss me, Hardy! – pretence shown by Nelson, say, with unsupported calf, drug injected, in a fib comprehended by everyone else : THERESLIFEIN
10-down – See 7 : THEOLDDOGYET
15-down – Absorbing second best picture : THESCREAM
17-down – Writer’s a dole cheque that’s turned up, folded in intricate ways : ORIGAMI
18-down – vegetable could be in caps, given aspiration : SPINACH
19-down – European back from Japan? : EASTERN
20-down – Piece of armour employed by terrorists in blast? : CUIRASS
22-down – The China Bilingual – first up in treble : ELAMI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.