This crossword No. 24839 clues and answers were published on Sat 24 Oct 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24839 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Poultry and moussaka? Oddly, nothing after : MUSKDUCK
5-across – Boatman’s settled in dead-end street or strip : DIVEST
9-across – Part of verse has line with something missing: gravity — it’s lightweight : FOOTLING
10-across – Spirits of dead-end kids: rebellious, outspoken, tuneless : SPOOKS
12-across – Perhaps stocks of Lada Ltd in Russia unreliable : INDUSTRIALS
15-across – Dead-end career next? : LATER
17-across – Pressure-formed, it’s de-ice spray for farmers : PESTICIDE
18-across – Flirting with dead-end relationship : DALLIANCE
19-across – Polish anthem endures in the heart : EMEND
20-across – Almost catches customer: not exactly cricket : GRASSHOPPER
24-across – Gather for a drink after day is done : DRUMUP
25-across – Drama of dead-end soul-searching wrongly denying anger : HUISCLOS
26-across – Shocking Scene One from brother’s production of Three Sisters? : NIECES
27-across – Set out again from a dead-end street in need of repairs : RESTATED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Drama in posh part of London, reported by Cockney woman : MYFAIRLADY
2-down – Stopped dead-end kids also taking pennies at checkout : STOODSTILL
3-down – Dead-end pub serves these parts of Yorkshire : DALES
4-down – Boat in canal, rot swirling in contrasting motion : CONTRAPUNTAL
6-down – Showing no concern for four in dead end : IMPASSIVE
7-down – Head over heels, aching for love : EROS
8-down – International meeting set up on time : TEST
11-down – A classy purée, ordered with bream etc : PARSLEYSAUCE
13-down – Boatman at helm of tug gets a good deal : RIVERPILOT
14-down – Attacked with hammer in deserted complex : TENDERISED
16-down – Measure of liquidity in climate of anger about bank sitting on gold : RAINGAUGE
21-down – Charge out non-resident’s take-away dinners : ONSET
22-down – Letters written in dead-end Middle East port : ADEN
23-down – Ill-mannered about dead-end street in Paris : RUDE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.