This crossword No. 22613 clues and answers were published on Sat 31 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22613 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Indirect speech? You gab and leg twitches! : BODYLANGUAGE
8-across – So the vixen is with child: and us! He must be a demon in bed! : INCUBUS
9-across – Climbing mountain road, books a pacemaker for one : IMPLANT
11-across – Grant society two conclusions : STIPEND
12-across – Was he a dreadful king, this winged predator? : SEAHAWK
13-across – One Grand Master unknown in Shelley’s paradise of exiles : ITALY
14-across – Bush’s former chief chronicler died from it : TOPIARIST
16-across – Retire to take revenge on pollenosis? : HITTHEHAY
19-across – Magwich appearing at East End : ABELE
21-across – Where nuclear subs are losing time in the outside track : FASLANE
23-across – Hello, hello! There’s a lot of bacon in the barbecue : HIBACHI
24-across – Solvers resolving Nero’s thumbs up! : YOUREON
25-across – Impervious to the fading light : SUNFAST
26-across – Irritation expressed on behalf of… Who – Mr Townshend? : FORPETESSAKE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – But incomplete chapters in a blast from the past from this? : BUCCINA
2-down – Beauty I’d despoiled without a doubt : DUBIETY
3-down – Ha-ha! Is this the final attempt? : LASTDITCH
4-down – NCOs with a different skin cover : NAIKS
5-down – Where Linnaeus graduated, engendering endless applause : UPPSALA
6-down – Indians seeking guarantee: no support for it, one concludes : GUARANI
7-down – Never? But plods do – in helicopters! : PIGSMIGHTFLY
10-down – Consider Catherine Howard’s position and refuse to testify : TAKETHEFIFTH
15-down – Breakdown of Norman Bates’s sibling? : PSYCHOSIS
17-down – Try, I hear you do, this ancient air raid shelter : TESTUDO
18-down – Gag Eva, eh?! : HEAVEUP
19-down – Her Grace posed naked, in a sorry state : ALBANIA
20-down – Some corner of a foreign field that is for ever… France’s in being left without warning : ENCLAVE
22-down – Modern style expression of Dadaist : ERNST
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.