This crossword No. 22731 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22731 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Liberties taken after the match? : CONJUGAL
5-across – Reflective selection first to last : ECHOIC
9-across – Removes the assembly surrounding ‘unt protests : DEMOUNTS
10-across – See 1 : RIGHTS
12-across – Three times with mutual docking idea, I run wild search for us here! : WWWGUARDIAN
15-across – Iberian poet banishing sickness from his island : LORCA
17-across – See 12 : UNLIMITED
18-across – Hero cast in stone could be more of the same : OTHERONES
19-across – Man hiding shirt of a kind made of fibre : ISTLE
20-across – Meddle with, fumble ‘n’ break it? Out! : TINKERABOUT
24-across – Heroin freely available : ONHIRE
25-across – Desert ship’s master having punch-up in car : CAMELEER
26-across – Camera one’s carried to Bear Island : KODIAK
27-across – One appraises American bases thus: right? : ASSESSOR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Fish consume most of power in the bilge : CODSWALLOP
2-down – Distinguished Tory he-man with malformation : NAMEWORTHY
3-down – Freedom of Hard Right to infiltrate three universities : UHURU
4-down – Turbine ran G-force wildly, producing thrust from this : AFTERBURNING
6-down – Successive Chinese leaders grabbing one for nothing in Thailand : CHIANGMAI
7-down – Pinochet’s missile launch site : OCHE
8-down – Reckon when caught out : CAST
11-down – Bluebeard’s taking a breather; ‘e’s sired a failure : GILLESDERAIS
13-down – London guild preceding the Queen Victoria Society : STATIONERS
14-down – Speculator’s a debtor accepting a bet : ADVENTURER
16-down – Our base in Cyprus piped up a group of Greek ornaments : ACROTERIA
21-down – Mischief maker snatching Sapper’s crest : ARETE
22-down – See 12 : COUK
23-down – Compiler of 8 : SHED
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.