This crossword No. 21813 clues and answers were published on Sat 05 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 21813 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Maybe first or second row gets spoken about : ORDINAL
8-across – Upwardly mobile person must be more or less flexible : CLIMBER
10-across – See 22 : SENSES
11-across – Spinner and muscleman are ill-balanced : TOPHEAVY
12-across – See 22 : YOUR
13-across – 22 23 6 12 10? A penny for them : WHATAREYOU
14-across – Gardener’s aid to blackbird in fictional village : CLOCHEMERLE
19-across – See 13 : THINKINGOF
22-across – Every fool has easy avenue to nukes: organiser’s sanity is in question : HAVE
23-across – : YOUTAKEN
24-across – Refugee from alien regime : EMIGRE
25-across – Demeanour of singer captivating audience : BEARING
26-across – Nick’s not to play without a handicap : SCRATCH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Right to come in to eat, before time’s up, where there are no bars? : FREEDOM
2-down – Musician, a holy one, in devious Merlin’s grasp : MINSTREL
3-down – Martial epigram, perhaps, is capital : WARSAW
4-down – Wise man keeps speaker quiet, seeing the extent of failure : SLIPPAGE
5-down – Some current version of Dad after upsetting Mum : AMPERE
6-down – See 22 : LEAVEOF
9-down – Chaps who have cuppas take to booze in the home counties for a source of power : STEAMENGINE
15-down – Smart boys? Let them stand up before they are counted : CHICKENS
16-down – I had twice left off being refined : LAHDIDAH
17-down – Bird with a cough that faces work with uncertainty : WHOOPER
18-down – Covetousness is a bad thing without much art : AVARICE
20-down – Rugby score disallowed by intervention of a lawman : NOTARY
21-down – Deprive of money and escape from church : FLEECE
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.