This crossword No. 28063 clues and answers were published on Sat 22 Feb 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28063 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Make less iron, perhaps : DECREASE
5-across – One article carried by climbers primarily? : ICEAXE
9-across – Such a tyre goes soft? Extremely likely : CROSSPLY
10-across – A poet caught out, being a bit of a heel? Quite the opposite : TOECAP
12-across – Castrate last of brood — Siamese not seeing Thailand once : DESEX
13-across – Shows respect for lethal weapons : CROSSBOWS
14-across – 21 against installing electronic warning light : BEACON
16-across – Refreshingly, very little said against Queen’s Counsel : ADVISER
18-across – Pongs include body odour in antelopes : REEBOKS
20-across – Far from comfortable, condemned characters in purdah : HARDUP
22-across – Resigns from pop group Blue : STEPSDOWN
23-across – Kick out English footballer who’s dropped ecstasy once : EXPEL
24-across – Hobnob, perhaps, as writer that is keeping the big man on board : BICKIE
25-across – Point needed after City game : LACROSSE
26-across – Take stock, with unhappy result : RUSTLE
27-across – Note mistake’s third to appear in clues — they’re seldom spotted : RECLUSES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Went off, you might say, for a number of years : DECADE
2-down – State arbitrators have seized some of this puzzle’s content? : CROSSREFERENCES
3-down – Cricket team making opposing players run back and forth : ESSEX
4-down – Musical’s essential element : SILICON
6-down – Combining two different styles shows some balls : CROSSOVER
7-down – Having contrary understanding of what might be a super 19 : ATCROSSPURPOSES
8-down – Recording disc certain to generate publicity : EXPOSURE
11-down – Not one of the 21 formerly used for counterirritant : MOXA
15-down – B___ sick as a parrot? No, a finch : CROSSBILL
17-down – Returning at first reluctantly, almost becomes part of the woodwork : CROSSBAR
19-down – See spinner’s over : SPOT
20-down – Stone Age tool? Joiner would be in heaven, oddly : HANDAXE
21-down – Using rifles, shot 15s, say : FLIERS
23-down – Register as nurse with reduced capacity : ENROL
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.