This crossword No. 23022 clues and answers were published on Wed 24 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23022 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Since it’s 10 off, take it for champagne : ANTISPUMANTE
7-across – It’s incorrect to make the devil a cow-catcher : IMPROPER
13-across – Proverbial reversal of plan for 1 ac : PAROEMIAC
14-across – Top of star cast : SLING
15-across – Religious groups gas about November : CULTS
16-across – River water container : EWER
17-across – Scientist going forward : NEWTON
18-across – Turned out to be cut short : TRUNCATED
20-across – Disorderly crew making new growth : ASPROUT
23-across – Carver or composer, leader of society : GIBBONS
25-across – Pole has existed : BEEN
27-across – Taken heart with a boat : KAYAK
28-across – Alien painter : MANET
29-across – Where’er you walk, maybe, dancing on legs : SONGTITLE
30-across – Commercial for commercials: outside French Greenland Italian is English : ITPAYSTOADVERTISE
32-across – Protective armour for traditional post : SNAILMAIL
34-across – 1 – 0 for Welsh boy : IANTO
35-across – Commotion helps to make 43 50 : HOOHA
37-across – Skilled/unskilled? : DEFT
38-across – It sounds like a falcon, my poppet : ALANNAH
39-across – Examples attained after a time on board : SEALEGS
41-across – Brief article on old power station : BATTERSEA
42-across – School feature found by Alpine geologists : FLYSCH
45-across – Model car : TRAM
48-across – A king at sea is vertical : APEAK
49-across – First papal seal : BULLA
50-across – Transfers right into German boy : HANDOVERS
51-across – Dig up the dirt in the southeast, possibly : DISINTER
52-across – Girl with fellows has time for declaration : ANNOUNCEMENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Pupil has fruit drink : APPLEJACK
2-down – Alloy of lead and tin means end of bronze : TERNE
3-down – Sea duck on seafront : SMEW
4-down – Get together with leaderless cue : UNITE
5-down – The racecourse is like a little house : ASCOT
6-down – Notoriety’s only part of the boxer : TYSON
8-down – The masterminder is his parent’s child : MAGNUSSON
9-down – Style of love and business : ROCOCO
10-down – Help out with let in some way? I don’t believe it! : PULLTHEOTHERONE
11-down – Screen devised for house : RESIDENCE
12-down – A day early in the month – second to ninth and tenth, including fifth : SIXTHORSEVENTH
19-down – Swallowed a tablet? Ring the bell : TOOKAPILL
21-down – Health comes from playing I spy – hit on the head : PHYSICALFITNESS
22-down – The setter’s private : TOMMY
23-down – In the fashion of horoscopy, coincidentally with the sun when energy’s lost : GENETHLIACALLY
24-down – Military unit for man serving officer : BATTALION
26-down – Sedate at top of flight : STAIRHEAD
31-down – Chambers before printing? : ROOMS
32-down – Two little boys in the dining room : SIDEBOARD
33-down – Thou lovest Latin that can be collected : AMASSABLE
36-down – Posh member to take his seat for action against contract breaker : ASSUMPSIT
40-down – Attain heaven : WELKIN
42-down – Heartless fun from playwright : FRAYN
43-down – Lout raising crop circles : YAHOO
44-down – More or less nameless standard : CANON
46-down – Old magistrate concerned with previous day : REEVE
47-down – Old magistrate, last of the line : DOGE
This crossword has in total 56 where 29 are across and 27 are down.