This crossword No. 22050 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22050 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Tchaikovsky hero’s individual spirit : ONEGIN
5-across – Call, in poet’s translation, for one with jewelled ear : ETHIOP
8-across – Said solver’s treated amorously, not like Burns’s love : YORKIST
9-across – Put the frighteners on abandoned byre : COWSHED
11-across – The usual runs on banks from investments : STOCKSANDSHARES
12-across – In which pupil appears to flag : IRIS
13-across – Painter given money to turn fish-eater : TINTORETTO
17-across – Not owing a pound, retired into fitted kitchen : INTHEBLACK
18-across – Elemental spirit? : FIRE
20-across – Fish getting mad among non-alcoholic drinks by 4 6, they say : TANGLEWOODTALES
23-across – Poisonous yellow deformed stunted growth, after the Sun : RAGWORT
24-across – Abstraction to go with daylight : ROBBERY
25-across – Italian and German articles in silent flight : GLIDER
26-across – A month on the border produces chaos : MAYHEM
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Traction’s treatment for druggy : NARCOTIST
3-down – Composer’s connection between notes : GLINKA
4-down – Winkle with sodium compared with iodine on top of … : NATHANIEL
5-down – Spanish hero with a line to the Yard? : ELCID
6-down – Goldie embracing the Thunderer for the first part of 26 : HAWTHORN
7-down – Going into the red compared with 17? : OTHER
8-down – Small objects during the last programme with 21 6, they say : YESMINISTER
10-down – Author of computing system, a plaything for even half a TV outfit : DOSTOYEVSKY
14-down – What the spy in the cab said about cat, pig and sheep : TACHOGRAM
15-down – A lake you have drunk – reel with mirth : THIRLMERE
16-down – Factor caused by mirth arising during meals? : FEELCOLD
19-down – Initially short and fat from Australian beer : STUBBY
21-down – Boy goes on batting when uplifted : NIGEL
22-down – See 18 : WATER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.