This crossword No. 27417 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 Jan 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27417 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Leaning back, a boy exercises a part of the 10 : AMYGDALA
9-across – Part of the 10 where heavyweight author files page : HIPPO
10-across – Critical moment on coming to this floating toilet : HEAD
11-across – Sexes, perhaps, mate in Germany’s capital city : PALINDROME
12-across – First of month welcomed by priests, old feast day : LAMMAS
14-across – Intensively study part of the 10 for spiked plates : CRAMPONS
15-across – Consider clamping journalist on a part of the 10 : MEDULLA
17-across – Paul coming backwards, couple come together : EMBRACE
20-across – Part of the 10 the norm, that is unlikely to be scalped : PARIETAL
22-across – Cake gone — and most of whiskey : PASTRY
23-across – Drunk ignores pub, feeling better for it? : SOBERINGUP
24-across – See 20 : LOBE
25-across – Foul eating starter of turkey, cover meat with fat : BASTE
26-across – Part of the 10, like that cushioning a blow : THALAMUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Current measure, degree up with furious exercising? : AMPERAGE
2-down – Curse once wrapped up in bandages : EGAD
3-down – See 9 : CAMPUS
4-down – Unsound notion, as a member reported? : FALLACY
5-down – In May, county transfixed by a spirit : PHANTASM
6-down – Extra bits in box, belt and buckle finally hauled up : SPAREPARTS
7-down – Beastly lot has little time to get a closer look : ZOOMIN
13-down – Apparently tough poser is never really understood, maybe initially impossible? : MRUNIVERSE
16-down – Rubbish is learnt going places? : LATRINES
18-down – Church concerned with familiar city in part of the 10 : CEREBRUM
19-down – Brilliance breaking through for Britain at war? : BLIGHTY
21-down – A private’s ending in the army, a simple form of life : AMOEBA
22-down – Wood in, heart out : POPLAR
24-down – Bread 10 : LOAF
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.