This crossword No. 22523 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22523 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – I need the power of talk to secure corner for trading : CONTROLFREAK
8-across – Dull beat – what precedes it? I don’t know : HUMDRUM
9-across – Lay into speed play : MACBETH
11-across – Athir or ether? : THINAIR
12-across – Poet and untidy jotter : NOTEPAD
13-across – The years time forgot, administering a treatment : ENEMA
14-across – Trace elements discovered in 9 fruit : NECTARINE
16-across – Desperately want to bite leg in Derbyshire : LONGEATON
19-across – Ossa crania’s joining bones : SACRA
21-across – Two presents in limbo : NOWHERE
23-across – After Welcome to Hawaii!, certainly take it easy : LEISURE
24-across – Laver, for example, a top player, wonder-struck : SEAWEED
25-across – Guardian’s lost QEII’s marbles : THEMIND
26-across – Kiss me, Hardy!? : PECKINGORDER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – I left Pimlico travelling east and I do this! : COMPILE
2-down – Group’s rain-swept vehicle drives into it : NIRVANA
3-down – Master’s making mark during term, oddly : REMBRANDT
4-down – Sports venue? Not quite, love! : LEMAN
5-down – Something from the dairy girl, educated, but bedridden : RICOTTA
6-down – Theatre and pub situated in a food shop : ADELPHI
7-down – Dish sticks around man with bat : CHITTERLINGS
10-down – The real reason for the Volkswagen/Daimler merger meeting : HIDDENAGENDA
15-down – Master is unable to hold his beer : CANALETTO
17-down – Did Ken say Western Avenue was a revolutionary approach? : NEWWAVE
18-down – Not great support for the Nag’s Head’s short weekend away round clubs : EWENECK
19-down – Salary: it’s overhang : STIPEND
20-down – Top server: You have a message : COURIER
22-down – Direction from ‘ere in London? : ENDON
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.