This crossword No. 22713 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22713 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Leaves a quid : TOBACCO
5-across – Was bent on giving the setter an outrageous kickback : MEANTTO
9-across – Comrades! A revolution here in pop! : CREAMSODA
10-across – Corrupt man from Spithead, as it were : GOBAD
11-across – Take in food : TUCK
12-across – Nothing to do with dishing the dirt? : IDLEGOSSIP
14-across – German chap heard to perform work of Sassoon : HAIRDO
15-across – Who’s heard in musical partnership? : CAHOOTS
16-across – The soft touch that purifies the soul, say : DOORMAT
18-across – See 27 : DOBSON
20-across – Where the slate is used and when it is not : ONTHEHOUSE
21-across – Brief briefs maker? : SILK
24-across – Ring the wife! One earned a buck : ORIBI
25-across – Up sticks and pack m’ bare essentials! : BREAKCAMP
26-across – Distant daughter supplants wife of electromagnetic Michael : FARADAY
27-across – Beerbohm drowned her suitors in polluted bio-lake. Zounds! : ZULEIKA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – It’s assumed flyer accepts current : TACIT
2-down – A Slav rising, with Langley’s support, in Italy : BRESCIA
3-down – How potential winners go back to front : COME
4-down – Rock singer’s prayer upsetting Ebenezer Scrooge: No good! My old BMW’d ‘aunt you! : OLORDWONTYOUBUY
5-down – See 4 : MEAMERCEDESBENZ
6-down – No lover of shopkeepers? : ANGLOPHOBE
7-down – Something of Bloody Mary Tudor’s opener: Down with French pacifist! : TABASCO
8-down – Dictionary work: nothing going for one solver of the Sphinx’s riddle : OEDIPUS
13-down – See 3 : FROMBEHIND
16-down – Set down traveller to reach the Land of Nod? : DROPOFF
17-down – Loner who’d tell more porkies than others, right? : OUTLIER
19-down – I’m a popular banker, coming up with the folding! : ORIGAMI
22-down – Greek character heard to tell better jokes? : KAPPA
23-down – Lok Sabah recessing with a toast to the Rikstag : SKOL
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.