This crossword No. 22971 clues and answers were published on Sat 25 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22971 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Volumes of fish with dessert : CODICES
5-across – Like the dove … : PACIFIC
9-across – … adrift in the ark? : ATSEA
10-across – Love came close without : OVEREGGED
11-across – The right locations for a deformed and scurrilous Grecian : THERSITES
12-across – Friend embracing alien with term of endearment : PETAL
13-across – One going in for a statement of Africanism? : RASTA
15-across – Having a minimal workforce, use head no end : ONEHANDED
18-across – British 1 down’s funny lot – cask masked casket : SALTCAKED
19-across – Station of royal anger? : KINGS
21-across – See 19 : CROSS
23-across – The second time a winter sportsman has become a Turkish general : SERASKIER
25-across – Gaudy night flier: it returns bacterium back to hospital : TIGERMOTH
26-across – Came into being with irrelevant name? : AROSE
27-across – Plant of bestial tendency : ASTILBE
28-across – Prod Scotsman with cards : POKEMON
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Mat is company for Daisy : COASTER
2-down – What happens to 5 down characters in face of radiation : DISPERSAL
3-down – Love in a little boy means everything’s 9 : CHAOS
4-down – Peace with au pair gaining religious knowledge and doing so quickly? : SHORTWORK
5-down – A crowd in the cupboard : PRESS
6-down – Hawker producing the sound of birdsong with fish : CHEAPJACK
7-down – Get a picture hat without a struggle : FIGHT
8-down – About a hundred were first cooked by Molly : CODDLED
14-down – Inherited from Lancaster? : ANCESTRAL
16-down – Wine producers with joint to be exercised in church : ELDERSHIP
17-down – Toothlike depression the setter is making : DENTIFORM
18-down – Boozer keeps company with painter in the Indian Ocean : SOCOTRA
20-down – 5 down enters child operator : SURGEON
22-down – How disgusting to put in books the suggestion of a moral law! : OUGHT
23-down – See 18 across : SMOKE
24-down – See 18 across : STACK
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.