This crossword No. 26274 clues and answers were published on Sat 31 May 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26274 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A scolding? Please explain : WHATFOR
5-across – Effect of insecticide for plant? : BUGLOSS
9-across – House party into the groove, looking back : TUDOR
10-across – Fish a bit strange ultimately, a bit odd : WHITEBAIT
11-across – One climbing plant in gallery — Romanesque, say? : ITALIANATE
12-across – Hooter’s ’oot : OWL
14-across – I run batsman out, playing a blinder : MASTURBATION
18-across – A lot behind, hard to forget unfortunately, after retirement of Brown — this much still left behind : NATIONALDEBT
21-across – Time to get some therapy : ERA
22-across – Looking to catch egg running backwards — extraordinary! : STAGGERING
25-across – Creep silently at first, then hop past tree : SLIMEBALL
26-across – Pigment taps into mineral deposit : OCHRE
27-across – Well-placed construction boy reported : DERRICK
28-across – Spread out, saw around centre of pile : DILATED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – In as gin can be? : WITHIT
2-down – An Anglican clergyman peaking in South America? : ANDEAN
3-down – One sinning in fact, or doubly wicked : FORNICATOR
4-down – Two yews, say, in bay tree : ROWAN
5-down – Surgical pioneer pokes bottom that’s covered in sores : BLISTERED
6-down – Sexy woman found in a state in India, say? : GOER
7-down – Needing no introduction, sexist Kazakh loves to adopt religious teachings as The Messiah, perhaps? : ORATORIO
8-down – Making one’s home, landlord’s first to enter the scene : SETTLING
13-down – Toy with Ken Livingstone’s last bill, bad or otherwise : BARBIEDOLL
15-down – Spooner’s cooked nail, metal item at breakfast? : TOASTRACK
16-down – Furious as a thurible? : INCENSED
17-down – After a storm, Emirates hotter : STEAMIER
19-down – Headgear other than this keeps fashionable : TINHAT
20-down – Granted, old houses are roofless : AGREED
23-down – Very cold bottoms on freezing ice cap : GELID
24-down – Heads of King Edward’s people in military headgear : KEPI
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.