This crossword No. 22571 clues and answers were published on Sat 13 Jul 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22571 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Grown-up girl wedded to crime : BIGAMY
4-across – Descriptive of surface of leather or pelt : PEBBLE
9-across – The Highland fling : TOSSINGTHECABER
10-across – Dress right – one must have Parisian taste : RIGOUT
11-across – Attacks with shells – no retreat! : ROUNDSON
12-across – Career’s involved hard study : RESEARCH
14-across – Old boy’s lost capital in the city : EXETER
15-across – Cannon’s part responsible for reported gap in defences : BREECH
18-across – Plants take fish unloaded here, perhaps : DOCKSIDE
21-across – Form of punishment exposed by one bearing stripes : CORPORAL
22-across – Sharpness shown in a document’s contents, overlooking nothing : ACUMEN
24-across – Go flat out? : DOONESLEVELBEST
25-across – Screech or hoot? : SCREAM
26-across – Knock back drink after eating game with veg : TURNIP
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Newly-wed occupied by mounting tick? That’s commonplace! : BROMIDE
2-down – Sudden burst of wind – not something that gives pleasure! : GUSTO
3-down – Assembly retaining the North, ie the Province : MUNSTER
5-down – Top businessman I see quitting : EXECUTE
6-down – RA blessed, perhaps, in not having a Vandyke : BEARDLESS
7-down – I fly high, say, to see this sight : EYESORE
8-down – Formality shown – find a way to bend : STARCH
13-down – Stir, before taking this drink : EYEOPENER
16-down – Port, in our view, makes one boisterous : RIOTOUS
17-down – Shire, say, keeping name given to a place in Yorkshire : HORNSEA
18-down – One probing Minister was first set up : DELVER
19-down – Country house serving two kinds of beverage, you say : CHATEAU
20-down – Put on fancy wear and brag? : DRESSUP
23-down – Place in South Africa, not its capital city : URBAN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.