This crossword No. 22703 clues and answers were published on Sat 14 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22703 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Be lustful in iron spire : FLECHE
5-across – A villain’s leavings, perhaps : SVENGALI
9-across – Live right by peninsula, almost in disorder : BERIBERI
10-across – Even Seb retires in old age : EOCENE
11-across – Where to admit fuel muffling neo-Nazis’ noises off : CONFESSIONAL
13-across – Wicked woman interrupting strumpet : BAWD
14-across – Compiler’s carrying on with affected type of government : MONARCHY
17-across – Toughest stag gives up the ghost inside : HARDIEST
18-across – Leave a bit : PART
20-across – A political craftsman? : CABINETMAKER
23-across – Book size for old firm to put tax returns in : OCTAVO
24-across – Newt with young inhaling oxygen at once, once : EFTSOONS
25-across – Wessex girl clutching cylinder, missing the greenwood : TREELESS
26-across – Tough little lady’s alter ego admitting nothing new : HOYDEN
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Boy brought up to property right : LIEN
3-down – Detectives stamped around and met one another : COINCIDED
4-down – They walk out of the next European Union assembly : EXEUNT
5-down – Very British memsahib, half drunk, gives vent to salty oath : SHIVERMYTIMBERS
6-down – Service boy in retribution, topped and tailed : EVENSONG
7-down – Reptile shooting coke by the gram : GECKO
8-down – County in real trouble accepting money : LANCASHIRE
12-down – Notice silver in a lot of make-up on the island : MADAGASCAR
15-down – Concerning each politician and what one can perform : REPERTORY
16-down – Swan to make off with Molly Bloom’s original : PENELOPE
19-down – Amusing scene involving a basket chair : SKETCH
21-down – Grandma entered? That’s fatuous! : INANE
22-down – What to bend after a monarch is born? : KNEE
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.