This crossword No. 22607 clues and answers were published on Sat 24 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22607 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Set in line of battle, perhaps: so 5 down consulted higher authority? : RANGED
5-across – Quality perfumed with 48 : WATER
8-across – Outstanding : SIGNAL
13-across – Old city, with it, to get a degree on 1st of June or plough : URSAMAJOR
14-across – Many at start of play will bloom in the desert : CACTI
15-across – Red Robin : ADAIR
16-across – Dancer from the fen dancing with Tony : FONTEYN
17-across – From Cameroon there comes a camel : OONT
18-across – Financier’s complaint about marshal being given his head : MONEYMAN
20-across – Follower of the shuttle : COCK
21-across – Alternative following for Princess Christian : DIOR
22-across – Grant for potter’s percolator? : LEACH
23-across – Bowler at sea : DRAKE
25-across – Streamers for knights errant on red slab : BANDEROLS
26-across – Becomes busy with a ring? : GETSENGAGED
30-across – Interfering old woman to make love and to draw fish : TROUTSPOON
32-across – 0 per cent finance for Peter Pan? : NEVERNEVER
34-across – Dead twice? He left off, being mentally confused : ADDLEHEADED
35-across – One that fought with Old Pretender for more than a sonnet? : FIFTEENER
38-across – It isn’t extra for a skin transplant : INTRA
41-across – Weight increasing with speed? : TONUP
42-across – Bill concerning land : ACRE
43-across – A right to travel by ship : ARGO
45-across – Look for meat : BUTCHERS
46-across – See 2 : LACE
47-across – Arranged with a view? : INORDER
50-across – Congratulations to assassin : BRAVO
51-across – Summons about bone of antelope : ORIBI
52-across – The staff of an organisation are among the dregs — they produce heavy stuff : LEADMINES
53-across – [Variations: 5ac, 7, 30dn, 48; and/or 44] : GARDEN
54-across – Model keen on half Venetian painter : TINTO
55-across – [Variations: 8ac, both parts of 18, 49; and this 24] : DANGER
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – A candle or candles I need to play : ARSENICANDOLD
3-down – Ex-minister to make things stick : GUMMER
4-down – Girl in frenzied ride for love : DEJANEIRO
5-down – Bad prose among trite stuff in the Guardian, with little time for our man at the front? : WARCORRESPONDENT
6-down – The only cog to work the machines? : TECHNOLOGY
7-down – Stick or move? : ROCK
8-down – Deer drinking 30 down in spite of bacterium : SPIROCHAETE
9-down – Progressive leader for Indian state : GOAHEAD
10-down – I intend rising in the motoring organisation – bloodlessly? : ANAEMIA
11-down – Choirboy gets it in the neck : RUFF
12-down – [Variations: 4, 36, 50, 54; and, before all, 37] : GRANDE
19-down – Kipling’s 13 devours teetotal son of Blair, following 5 across to a Boney conclusion : BATTLEOFWATERLOO
20-down – Horse chestnut without the chest : COB
24-down – Catcher let off : NETTLE
27-down – [Variations: 11, 20ac, 20dn, 23; and 44-ly 45] : GANDER
28-down – Evening recce’d unfortunately got swallowed : GIVENCREDENCE
29-down – Beetle following French 20 : DOR
30-down – Sound of letter swallowed : TEA
31-down – Colleague of Blair : PRESTERJOHN
33-down – A fellow receiving a point at first, as is fitting : ADAPTATION
36-down – The footballer of Aragon? : FERDINAND
37-down – 5 across found variously in 4, 8 down and 51 : RIO
38-down – Take liquid in clouds that don’t begin to exist : IMBIBE
39-down – Russian girl with tales of French comedian? : TATIANA
40-down – Daisy of Kent : ASHFORD
44-down – Shared : COMMON
48-down – The 30 down one is one, the 7 one isn’t : ROSE
49-down – Table not horizontal? : LIST
This crossword has in total 60 where 32 are across and 28 are down.