This crossword No. 22977 clues and answers were published on Sat 01 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 22977 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Organised tour with lady, apparently : OUTWARDLY
6-across – Brook babbling in North Wales : RHYL
10-across – 5 settled with David, an American wordsmith : MAMET
11-across – A picnic for a fall guy? : APUSHOVER
12-across – What would Pavarotti do in Hyde Park, shout? : SINGOUT
13-across – Master Icarus hybridising the grape hyacinth : MUSCARI
14-across – Offensive remark from m-most anti-CRE c-characters : RACISTCOMMENT
17-across – Fear of death without a name, that old black magic, breaking into quiet laugh : THANATOPHOBIA
21-across – No good a northern family entering this Chinese city : NANKING
22-across – Musical interval happening in silence! : SEVENTH
24-across – One a Dyke trapped, investigated and identified : DIAGNOSED
25-across – Bride of Cornwall, say, managed to get out : REGAN
26-across – Behind, following day’s first cuckoo : DAFT
27-across – Slaving treaties formed when Spanish agreement sent nothing abroad : ASSIENTOS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 16 : ONMISERY
2-down – See 16 : TOMAN
3-down – Might Network Rail respond to this battle cry? : ACTIONSTATIONS
4-down – Doctor the wine with carbon; it’s terrible! : DRASTIC
5-down – Familial blighters, according to 8 in 9 : YOURMUM
7-down – Essay’s thrust! : HAVEASTAB
8-down – Pop poet : LARKIN
9-down – Could be his best ever, the work of 8 : THISBETHEVERSE
15-down – Judgement of Solomon with baby calf: You say thin slices? : CUTINHALF
16-down – 8’s reflection in 9, perhaps: In a damn’ thorny mess, Ma. No? : MANHANDS
18-down – One clowning on a golf course : AUGUSTA
19-down – Bradman’s legs? : ONSIDES
20-down – See 5 : ANDDAD
23-down – Watchman! What of the black bat? : NIGHT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.