This crossword No. 21981 clues and answers were published on Sat 19 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 21981 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Introduction of President of Wales in year 21unlikely : MYFELLOW
5-across – Unfortunate few are responsible for caviare to the general : PEARLS
9-across – One drunk turns to the others: Keep quiet! We are drunkards : TOSSPOTS
10-across – A 12 point type left at the top : APICAL
12-across – See 5 : BEFORESWINE
15-across – Newlyn church – hang in there! : LYNCH
17-across – See 1 : AMERICANS
18-across – This virago would continue to take the mickey : SHEDRAGON
19-across – Dynast might try to hide in the chimney-back : MOGUL
20-across – One taking referrals from a saw doctor? : TREESURGEON
24-across – Abstraction in the medium term : TRANCE
25-across – Made a dowager around noon, with pains in the ear : WINDOWED
26-across – Spanish cuisine bound up with the French : PAELLA
27-across – Cloaks with a torn label, worn by the Jesuits and sent back : JELLABAS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Our energy generation might isolate Britain among Frenchmen : METABOLISM
2-down – Dietary item taking a pointer from one with the scales : FISHFINGER
3-down – The hinge from an envelope, right? : LOPER
4-down – Going beyond the upright bend, a lot use gravity sadly : OBTUSEANGLED
6-down – Estuarial English juvenile mimes letters and soft words : EUPHEMISM
7-down – Halite, one of Bill Haley’s crew? : ROCK
8-down – See 7 : SALT
11-down – Hold fire tender in esteem. O, calamity! : BIDEONESTIME
13-down – Dynasty led we British into Scott’s mass of deception : TANGLEDWEB
14-down – Walks over the Sedan Alps with energy : ESPLANADES
16-down – How the Church saw Galileo here; taking it up with the State : HERETICAL
21-down – Here Wordsworth wrote lines on boy’s upbringing : RYDAL
22-down – Strike makes us work quietly in the theatre : STOP
23-down – See 22 : PAGE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.