This crossword No. 22315 clues and answers were published on Sat 15 Sep 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22315 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – 15 of 9 taking a mad gamble, caught withholding : ABELMAGWITCH
8-across – Lay spoken of solvers no longer with us : OVULATE
9-across – Writer’s devil … : DICKENS
11-across – … not like another writer : TOLKIEN
12-across – Arkwright’s lad succeeding one archbishop, then another : LANGHAM
13-across – US city reporter switching material to get the sack : GUNNY
14-across – Art of French Revolution period? : DECOUPAGE
16-across – Fits city lights one after another : ECLAMPSIA
19-across – Here on earth or under it? : BELOW
21-across – I’m right! Smee, alternatively, is Duck : IMMERSE
23-across – Nothing much left after chopper chopped salamander : AXOLOTL
24-across – Ape Athens gave initially to Ceres, I gathered : GRECISE
25-across – This offensive little unit, essentially nitro, explodes: it blows their heads off! : TOLUENE
26-across – 9 15: good chap! Fair of Delius to enter Yes! No Bananas : STONEYBRIGGS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Quail migrating on the north wind : AQUILON
2-down – Symbolic catechists abandon lying for greed : EDACITY
3-down – Homer going West on 15 March? : MAEONIDES
4-down – He proved his logic in the Okavango Delta : GODEL
5-down – One sergeant with two names: you say he”s John Doe : INCONNU
6-down – Around Grozny there’s no size for type of skullcap : CHECHIA
7-down – Nothing in getting a mug shot of this 15 of 9 : MONTAGUETIGG
10-down – 15 of 9 used 15 23 for 15 22 : SAMUELWELLER
15-down – Eccentric type : CHARACTER
17-down – Constant brightness measured here : LAMBERT
18-down – Invasive 15 of Welles out of Wells : MARTIAN
19-down – Wellington’s part to play in probibition busting : BOOTLEG
20-down – They sack the string players, you say? : LOOTERS
22-down – Old comedian bearing lines from Bunthorne with polish : EMERY
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.