This crossword No. 22231 clues and answers were published on Sat 09 Jun 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22231 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Wheel of life decapitates, say, William Blake : ZOETROPE
9-across – Former London dialing code’s a gas : OZONE
10-across – Iraqi minister’s first-class : AZIZ
11-across – A few notes have detailed little boy’s regression at coming of age : BARMITZVAH
12-across – Setter not given a quarter for his work : PUZZLE
14-across – Singers King Cole and Franklin wanting a home for Jesus : NAZARETH
15-across – Dizzy girls providing backing for rock concerts : FIZGIGS
17-across – English on their toes about Loire valley town : TRELAZE
20-across – Spanish region’s not completed a former capital of that region : ZARAGOZA
22-across – Don’t take away food for plant hormone : ZEATIN
23-across – Mistakenly ignore God and be turned to stone : GORGONIZED
24-across – A Teutonic maize protein : ZEIN
25-across – Tenor Turner : LANZA
26-across – Home game’s ending for Germany and the same for Italy and Scandinavian World Cup hero : ZINEDINE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Two universities with one book about Zorba the Greek’s instrument : BOUZOUKI
2-down – Entire range where an extremist will stop? : ATOZ
3-down – Heading from the grave; that is a snake god : ZOMBIE
4-down – Crossed with a horse, initially enormous, medium for tuna, perhaps? : ZEBRINE
5-down – White or spoiled, weapon for an angled shot : HOWITZER
6-down – All the time, order turning up … on pizza? : MOZZARELLA
7-down – Runner has time once spent in Constantinople : BEZANT
13-down – Deviancy – one desperate for it! : ZIGZAGGING
16-down – Complain about the state of the Chechen capital : GROZNYAN
18-down – Show Scotsmen to be Africans : ZAIRIANS
19-down – Vitality of father beginning to abate : PAZZAZZ
21-down – Fern Scottish town uprooted : AZOLLA
22-down – See 26 : ZIDANE
24-down – My boss is sound asleep : ZEDS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.