This crossword No. 26137 clues and answers were published on Sat 21 Dec 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26137 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Small town clamour : BORODIN
5-across – Modern contacts from Sliema : EMAILS
8-across – Got rid of Times boss? : ERASED
13-across – Freedom that’s tolerated to excess : LICENCE
14-across – Criminal’s vehicle? I don’t believe it : GETAWAY
15-across – Island work out — Georgia goes missing : ARRAN
16-across – He puts down corded material by sideboard with no top : REPRESSER
17-across – Leading industrialist books house exchange on Thursday : INTHESOUTH
19-across – Killed — left missing out east by partners : SAINTSAENS
21-across – Cruel fellow, sober first : SADIST
25-across – Fruit and nuts topped : ANANAS
26-across – I performed outside Orcadian brae : MASKARADE
28-across – Snack counter spoken of at ski lift : TBAR
32-across – Foreign articles — new shoe and new trousers : LEDERHOSEN
33-across – Countryman going west taking in most of Athens, touring : EGDONHEATH
35-across – Fishing area could be Dover? : SOLE
36-across – Keeps poor Roy inside around start of year : HARYJANOS
37-across – Large male kangaroo born just after WW2? : BOOMER
39-across – Appeal Ms Black left out, reverting to type : ITALIC
41-across – Cover a hawk broke to cause damage : WREAKHAVOC
46-across – Puritan pocketing popular church gold : PRINCEIGOR
47-across – Island with volume ten : CAPRICCIO
49-across – Otterden is going out on Sunday : HOLST
50-across – Enright edited : THERING
51-across – Coppers in capital, detailed : SMETANA
52-across – Baltic Queen? : ESTHER
53-across – Old charioteer lost heart : WAGNER
54-across – Ruin half of Rhodes and Ilium : DESTROY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Could be Anderson without a wicket, starting over : BOLERO
2-down – Astronaut turns up and covers the ground again : RECAPS
3-down – 24’s patriarch came up, cleaving sword : DANSEMACABRE
4-down – Dogs spring off to heart of Kent : NIELSEN
5-down – Break galley up — bit by bit : ELGAR
6-down – A parody — 49 composed : ALTO
7-down – Sounds from the herd reach into the wood : LOWINGS
9-down – See 6 : RHAPSODY
10-down – Former captain will find out about abstract art : STRAUSS
11-down – Fishtail in shabby boat : DINGHY
12-down – Next to his body, feet moved : BYTHESIDEOF
18-down – Footballer’s streams : BECKS
20-down – Dignified introductions to services taken in cathedral : STATELY
22-down – Song thrush is off, finally : MAVLAST
23-down – Solo was first up : HANDEL
24-down – Country folk now living in Grantchester : ARCHERS
27-down – Toddler’s bedtime story of a good baron in castle : RAGBOOK
29-down – Lines from M*A*S*H : BRAHMS
30-down – No Christmas away for supporters : MONARCHISTS
31-down – Thinkers rebuilding 52 igloos : THEOLOGISERS
34-down – Tailless bird left : RAVEL
38-down – Boycott’s obligation with a DJ? : BLACKTIE
40-down – Short journey apparently on bike : TRIPLET
41-down – Launch site with low take-up period : WOOMERA
42-down – Spenser’s examined and sealed a document : APPOSED
43-down – Cavalryman’s well-heeled — not half! : SPAHEE
44-down – It’s short in duration and made from real ice, out east : ECLAIR
45-down – It’s certainly up with actress who played Lacey : KODALY
47-down – Some tragically going up in smoke : CIGAR
48-down – Sign on, with light infantry first : LION
This crossword has in total 58 where 28 are across and 30 are down.