This crossword No. 28123 clues and answers were published on Sat 02 May 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28123 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Earth, what goes around the sun : HELIOS
4-across – Quickly get ahead after game : SNAPUP
9-across – What one might say after fleeing country : IRAN
10-across – Platforms attached to lorries, those managing to go in reverse : TAILBOARDS
11-across – Juice knocked back with endless food from another planet : JOVIAN
12-across – Greek woman in Paris punches chin furiously : HELLENIC
13-across – Abstract making leverage to impress European Commission leaders : PRECISING
15-across – Smack fly on the rebound : TANG
16-across – Flag adopted by Bantus in Kenya : SINK
17-across – Old cop, having secured lighter and ciggy in the end, lights up on a clear night : STARRYSKY
21-across – Extremely big girl, very cold having left boozer finally : GALACTIC
22-across – Saturnine flash on Venus, for example : MOROSE
24-across – Drained after tight run-out, remaining calm : UNTROUBLED
25-across – Dark energy ready for NASA? : DIME
26-across – Stop following characters central to sissyish arrangement : SYSTEM
27-across – Draw in boundary, one cut off by post-impressionist : ENDEAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Cups turning up in time for port : HARBOUR
2-down – All finally on reel, you mean, filming Bambi — it’s a wrap! : LUNGI
3-down – Stumbling into us, head of government having entered, trips : OUTINGS
5-down – See 6 : NEBULA
6-down – Neptune: a ball in pieces circling a remarkably hollow luminous cloud : PLANETARY
7-down – Extra fat bear has lost weight : PADDING
8-down – Spun thing, as gripped by mercurial spinners, say? : FISHINGTACKLE
14-down – Constellation where Uranus etc misplaced : CENTAURUS
16-down – Mars visited by leader from Epsom, a town in Surrey : STAINES
18-down – Beastly male duck, flipping fast : RAMADAN
19-down – By the sound of it, money only for a subcontinental area : KASHMIR
20-down – Tailor finished off dressing butt : ATTUNE
23-down – Top, top game : RIDGE
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.