This crossword No. 22047 clues and answers were published on Sat 04 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22047 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – What’s blue and possibly brain-dead? : RIBAND
4-across – Cook’s vessel discovered Saint Peter decapitated on the grass : STOCKPOT
9-across – Test the soundness of one’s mettle, say, when leading : ASSAY
10-across – Don’t be so effusive down here! : CHEERLESS
11-across – Malignant spinner producing natural reaction among the reserves : TARANTULA
12-across – Quail cooked initially in port, perhaps : WINCE
13-across – Cocktail for a girl like Eartha Kitt? : OLDFASHIONED
17-across – Cracked bell also on my phone : MONOSYLLABLE
20-across – Irish diet one rejected? It’s a long story : ILIAD
21-across – One whose relations have been abandoned? : ADULTERER
23-across – Ring the assassin in the tax office : TOLLBOOTH
24-across – See 18 : AVERY
25-across – … a tale told by an idiot…signifying… : NONSENSE
26-across – Five on her scent : CHANEL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Opposition on a court charge : REACTION
2-down – He doth ___ the narrow world like a Colossus – Julius Caesar the top attraction was he? : BESTRIDE
3-down – Hither was it, where Charlemagne was crowned? : NOYON
5-down – 24 1across in ____- – Hamlet’s Under-21 International trophy? : THECAPOFYOUTH
6-down – Lateral revolution produced by a spokesperson? : CARTWHEEL
7-down – Father Time has a yen for this bloomer : PAEONY
8-down – Publisher’s reader with the Larousse Gastronomique? : TASTER
10-down – They watch the box up to the cocoa’s distribution : COUCHPOTATOES
14-down – Bad English viola playing should be shunned : AVOIDABLE
15-down – Might sailor-king want to return here? : ABERDEEN
16-down – The action of a rat by a later mutation : BETRAYAL
18-down – Could Byron’s prince of poets hail lines by this American painter? … : MILTON
19-down – or six lines on Francois? : VILLON
22-down – 25 binned? : TRASH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.