This crossword No. 22327 clues and answers were published on Sat 29 Sep 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22327 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Song following less than mature north bank resident : RIPARIAN
5-across – Return of a Catholic beast to a city in Poland : CRACOW
9-across – Return of a priest to another, telling it as it was : VERACITY
10-across – Commercial decay keeps one deft : ADROIT
11-across – Cook meal served with Italian water : LAKECOMO
12-across – Author of 24 25 initially in a layer of shingle : PEBBLY
14-across – Rude fellow eating cheese – in Old English, an old pipe : OBOEDAMORE
18-across – Oral with old boy network produces very blue fluid : ROYALBLOOD
22-across – Tree with deposit on land : ASHORE
23-across – Hild wantonly embracing boy with more money than industry : IDLERICH
24-across – Greeting without unction to surgeon : HOWDOI
25-across – See 24 : LOVETHEE
26-across – Unexciting study of poet : DRYDEN
27-across – Space explorers in step backwards, rising in relation to electrical unit under 8 : PEASANTS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 27 : REVOLT
2-down – Show disgust about the Queen’s hairpiece : PERUKE
3-down – Run out by nut in extravagant style : ROCOCO
4-down – Fall, O Simon Russell! said 21 : AUTOMOBILE
6-down – Ancient road revealed in weary dig : RIDGEWAY
7-down – Fiddle some figures like the modern Mrs Beeton? : COOKBOOK
8-down – Electrical unit on trust up against Richard II : WATTYLER
13-down – Support for Sir Alec from another place : SECONDHOME
15-down – Started on fish in bottom of river : BROACHED
16-down – En route, incidentally : BYTHEWAY
17-down – Note left for bird with halo : GLORIOLE
19-down – Depression? You need a holiday : RECESS
20-down – See 21 : WITHIN
21-down – Saint of the weather changes direction following Western rat – it’s not that simple : WHEELS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.