This crossword No. 27316 clues and answers were published on Sat 30 Sep 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27316 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Dog in jelly, perhaps? : SETTER
4-across – Cut article by some caustic youth leaders : SCYTHE
9-across – Chief of Hopi also called for a war dance : HAKA
10-across – 20 bans bones : BARBAROSSA
11-across – British novelist, more crafty? : ARCHER
12-across – 20 not entirely 20, one providing a spark? : GUNFLINT
13-across – One fighting to write libretto in small opera, not on : SWORDSMAN
15-across – Moustache’s back, go for a blade! : EPEE
16-across – Pen for writer of contemporary music : CAGE
17-across – Discarding thin part of neck, soft leg eaten : SCRAPPING
21-across – Decree found in letters of RC priest : RESCRIPT
22-across – 20 member on end of yardarm : MORGAN
24-across – Charity event rent asunder, if ending in boozer : FUNDRAISER
25-across – 20 bluff, by the sound of it : KIDD
26-across – 20 pieces of eight : SILVER
27-across – Brief toss to catch gold coin once : FLORIN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – 20’s bird : SPARROW
2-down – 20 school : TEACH
3-down – Boards having severe problem, scrub floors on ships : EMBARKS
5-down – Hole opening in road, careful to go round it : CRANNY
6-down – I’m going to work, entertaining idle fancy about project leader : TOODLEPIP
7-down – Concentrate, having put German city centre on the outskirts : ESSENCE
8-down – You’re expecting a possible result from this? : PREGNANCYTEST
14-down – As was Guy Fawkes, playing dice with a girl? : REGICIDAL
16-down – Possible bouncers in patterned cloth, did you say? : CHEQUES
18-down – Officer places space station in Russian machine, upside down : ADMIRAL
19-down – It’s in northwest London : NEASDEN
20-down – Copy one in to babble : PIRATE
23-down – Someone stopping to shave head, leaves tidier? : RAKER
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.