This crossword No. 22089 clues and answers were published on Sat 23 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22089 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Darling, did you hear the disgraced cricketer’s defence? A Welsh address produced all the starred items : JOHANNSEBASTIANBACH
11-across – ‘As to be gloss, then: display enthusiasm about it : SAINTMATTHEWPASSION
13-across – Have valedictions the power to give vegetables to insect, … : PEASANT
14-across – … a flower to the English … : EASTER
15-across – … and beans for the drinker? : COFFEE
17-across – Fibre for mats is a luxury : SISAL
19-across – To cry uncertainly, perhaps, may be judicious : SOBER
20-across – Like the little ball pusher supplied to Home Guard? : SPHERULAR
22-across – Always a sweater for father? Yes, as long as the pea-green boat was at sea : AYEARANDADAY
24-across – One who speaks 10 at this time : ORATORIO
26-across – The typical fool on the British road : BMINORMASS
27-across – Dispute about aristocrat and aristocratic? : ARTOFFUGUE
30-across – Boggled about recipe with varying variations : GOLDBERG
31-across – One with child – pregnant – lies sick : SINGLEPARENT
32-across – Invalid objects, sick at international body’s backing for restraints : NULLITIES
35-across – Shoot bird in bed : LAYER
36-across – Economist, if professional, would be one who takes the pledge : MISER
38-across – Someone of importance at home to the Queen : ERNEST
40-across – Seasonal pudding could be meat in an alien faith : FLAMBE
41-across – Have chips with it? It sounds a foolish trick : SILICON
44-across – A gate the Communist leader formerly had a right to : BRANDENBURGCONCERTO
45-across – Water supply at beauty spot: Communist has one in Dundee’s house : WELLTEMPEREDCLAVIER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Riding habits from English public house in the sticks? : JOSEPHS
2-down – Town in Israel twinned with Luton, say? : HAIFA
3-down – Object of the beautiful game is one for the girls : NETBALL
4-down – Silence at the back! It’s sunk : SHAFT
5-down – Speak live, breaking embargoes, something like French in the kitchen-garden? : BUTTERBEANS
6-down – S-Scotsman about to think in French like the Fairy Queen? : SPENSERIAN
7-down – Mark, the journalist, announces himself : IMPRESS
8-down – Channel of exorbitant payment for bouquet : NOSE
9-down – Do I have permission to proceed, buddy? : AMIGO
10-down – As much of a trouble as I can get a grip on? : HANDFUL
12-down – Released upwards: nothing remains for the chase : DEERFOREST
16-down – Driver gets encouragement to contain a disturbance : CHARIOTEER
18-down – One posing as police? O no! : SPECIAL
19-down – Clever about addition at home and home is a bank : SANDMARTIN
21-down – Biscuit cooked at a fair : RATAFIA
22-down – Advocates of catharsis first of importance in glasses : ALBIGENSES
23-down – Figures in tomboy’s rhyme : RHOMBOI
25-down – Russian boy raised among scientific researchers is putting the clock back : REGRESS
28-down – Game astronomer swallowing nasty bug gets the shakes : RUGBYLEAGUE
29-down – Range of force for computer operator, a country dweller : FIELDMOUSE
33-down – Protracted acknowledgment of medieval weaponry : LONGBOW
34-down – An umbrella not altogether necessary under the sun – hence belladonna and chips? : SOLANUM
36-down – Mother, reportedly a deprived person, gets some stick : MALACCA
37-down – Ill-feeling was current, partly so, without love : RANCOUR
39-down – Poles suffer from exponent of go-slow : SNAIL
41-down – Someone who turns to ice and grits his teeth? : STOIC
42-down – Welsh friend’s expressed surprise at soldier : CORGI
43-down – Alter the ebb? : EDIT
This crossword has in total 50 where 22 are across and 28 are down.