This crossword No. 21736 clues and answers were published on Sat 06 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 21736 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Holding up the Dark Lady’s hat, giving remodelling : DAYLIGHTSAVING
9-across – Not so virile as Gerard Hopkins, say? : UNMANLY
10-across – Send back Swedish settler after the others : RESTORE
11-across – Bloomer one’s seen during return visit to the Old Vicarage : LILAC
12-across – A loud and complicated matter with hard consequences : AFTERMATH
13-across – Finding out by practice : DIAGNOSIS
14-across – Composer of Wordsworth’s Solitude : BLISS
15-across – Such TV has us in stitches : CABLE
17-across – Accompaniment variations al Tito Gobbi? Not it! : OBBLIGATO
20-across – Almost unable to construct a register the wrong way. Capital! : ULANBATOR
22-across – Prince of Hearts demands a drink. It’s his round! : RAJAH
23-across – Travesty when actions speak louder than words : CHARADE
24-across – Oblate loves valid convert : OVOIDAL
25-across – Heavy-handed state of le fast food sent wild : FLATFOOTEDNESS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – With the French badly clued and in doubt, Switzerland might make a change : DOUBLEDECLUTCH
2-down – Putting up a grand chimney. Yes! With a lid for the synagogue : YAMULKA
3-down – Do not, in any wise, speak of Edith Wharton’s age : INNOCENCE
4-down – I hear two wise heads cracked with the times of their lives : HEYDAYS
5-down – Low cloud’s way over desert country : STRATUS
6-down – Without it a guest might lose face! : VISOR
7-down – Resurgent racist borne on a zimmer frame : NEONAZI
8-down – He helps me to sip with the Devil! : MEPHISTOPHELES
14-down – I produce a pipe? That’s right, with wife and family around : BRIERWOOD
16-down – Spending one’s time in a punch-up: it would be boring : BRADAWL
17-down – Full of vigour, but not perhaps hot on self-confidence : ONTHEGO
18-down – Poop of vessel involved in battle : BURNOUT
19-down – Declare a draw with Samson, for one? : ADJUDGE
21-down – Explosive expletive : BLAST
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.