This crossword No. 22481 clues and answers were published on Sat 30 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22481 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
11-across – Derby characters put underground in Wiltshire : RAMSBURY
12-across – Ring about back of Western bird : PEAFOWL
13-across – Wing for first part of game : ALAI
14-across – Green peas without a stew appear on tables : EPERGNES
15-across – Put underground part in Crossroads? : INTERSECTION
16-across – Wanting to cry : KEEN
17-across – One hand placed in river : WIMSEY
18-across – London feature – good going after girls : WENCHING
20-across – Wild flower on watch chain : ALBERTCAMPION
24-across – European concoction without European finish : DANISH
27-across – Not drinking pegs : TEETEE
28-across – Seasonal concoction from gull : APRILFOOL
29-across – Pound for book : EZRA
30-across – Indian piece may be followed by the mule : RAGA
32-across – Base rebuilt before legend goes back to bed : SEABOTTOM
33-across – Los Angeles myth reveals the Virgin’s mother’s next door : LYTHAM
35-across – Kin beheaded: I’m over the moon : ELATED
36-across – Devil take the confounded missioners – it was 41 : IMPRESSIONISM
38-across – City agent in 41 said to be past it : DECREPIT
41-across – European, maybe Polish : FRENCH
44-across – The good soldier has to take the oath : ODSO
47-across – Provided one with pet during conception? That would be telling! : NOTIFICATION
48-across – 24 king’s medal achieved in battles : WALDEMAR
50-across – 1, you stupid! : UNIT
51-across – Mad with love, as with something abdominal : OMENTAL
52-across – Right course for a shower of cicadas : RAINTREE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – First of the last’s first part in its second : MARPLE
2-down – Severe as operas in tabernacle? : ASTRINGENT
3-down – Bear decapitation with fatal result : RUIN
4-down – Most of traveller’s hesitation is chalky stuff : GYPSUM
5-down – Get up a letter before being struck : EPRISE
6-down – Did messing about in boats make him cross? : RATTY
7-down – Solver’s worn out, being alone on it : YOUROWN
8-down – Backstreet name : ALLEYN
9-down – The Don’t say I didn’t warn you saloon : LASTCHANCE
10-down – Prisoner naked in the water : LAGOON
17-down – Saw twin seeds beaten : WITNESSED
19-down – Pillow rhyme: I take soundings : POLLSTER
21-down – Look sideways to be sick – best place? : LEERAIL
22-down – Liar without a single fruit : ANANAS
23-down – Acts by classes : PERFORMS
24-down – Happy to back the lead, say : DALGLEISH
25-down – Insurance company’s taken up idiot to do better : SURPASS
26-down – Speaker’s residences : HOLMES
31-down – Subject of expulsion when Greg Dyke came to BBC hospital : AFTERBIRTH
34-down – Painter to put money onto climbing carnivore : TINTORETTO
37-down – Ship’s cook’s utensil : STEAMER
39-down – Wimbledon champion from Devon next year : EVONNE
40-down – What nobody did in a diary about the Irish? : POIROT
42-down – Fines, we hear, managed illness when it came up : RANULF
43-down – Jersey needed for modern Noah? : NEWARK
45-down – Bird of 28 rhyming with big one : SEAMEW
46-down – Say Ah! to follow 41 request for repeat : BISTO
49-down – The atmosphere is 41 in retreat : LAIR
This crossword has in total 54 where 26 are across and 28 are down.