This crossword No. 22743 clues and answers were published on Sat 01 Feb 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22743 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Create Ye Glum Old Sailor? Somehow he did! : SAMUEL
4-across – Spike one’s dram? : SCOTCH
9-across – See 1 : TAYLORCOLERIDGE
10-across – But it is! : OBJECT
11-across – Bible reformer with the old stony face imprisoned : WYCLIFFE
12-across – Did the late Yorick top himself with it? : SKULLCAP
14-across – Forgers at work here in El Greco’s view : TOLEDO
15-across – Hothead’s class of yacht : DRAGON
18-across – Home ground for strictly personal development? : BACKYARD
21-across – Rare find uncovered beyond the rainbow’s end : INFRARED
22-across – Memorials here to the Queensland Terriers? : CAIRNS
24-across – Composer recalled one to gory accident : COLERIDGETAYLOR
25-across – The Spanish O’Connor taking time with first-born : ELDEST
26-across – Post-1989 activities here extramural? : BERLIN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Jesuits get frenzied without a bishop and hide cat! : SJAMBOK
2-down – Film director’s note: Hold everything! : MALLE
3-down – Capricious apostate! Idle bounder! : ERRATIC
5-down – Crop of redundancies at Henley? : CREWCUT
6-down – Idly examine one bottle left within : TRIVIALLY
7-down – Well-nourished senior G-man : HIGHFED
8-down – Would speak of return to work with the backing of the Mills Brothers : DOOWOP
13-down – Man of fashion fled in panic after royal rebuff : LAGERFELD
16-down – Children’s author at the end of the road without a new series : RANSOME
17-down – Nymphs’ names around before Psyche : NEREIDS
18-down – Grew old and died raising wine for sale here : BODEGA
19-down – En which to cook oeufs tart? : COCOTTE
20-down – What cereal smugglers do on the Manchester Ship Canal? : RUNCORN
23-down – Tennyson wrote the same lines about Journey’s End : IDYLL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.