This crossword No. 28679 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Feb 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28679 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – One falters lamely, being so? : FRAILEST
9-across – Picaroon stops craving lucre, which is forgivable : VENIAL
10-across – Disapproved of skirt shortened by 1950s’ teenager : TUTTED
11-across – Broadcast publicity about horrible vacuous fools : AIRHEADS
12-across – Excited remark from man entertained by compilers : WHEE
13-across – Old Scottish side admitting wild riot in showers : EXHIBITORS
15-across – Daisy knocked over football team’s comic character : ASTERIX
16-across – Televises bits of rock by pair of players : SCREENS
18-across – Old garment from clothes shop with vulture’s tail feathers : HANDMEDOWN
19-across – Husband clad in green waves coming back : ECHO
20-across – Like irrational tirade for an ambitious type : ASPIRANT
22-across – Billionaire into S&M rejected seedy things : MELONS
23-across – Strip joint that’s sordid by street : DIVEST
24-across – Writer wearing nothing with cape is being revealing : OPENNESS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Skill in designing board game — piece on the board’s with it : DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
2-down – Assault school’s leader and punishment is to be reported : HITTHEHEADLINES
3-down – Engineers made oddly smooth info for IT user : READMEFILE
4-down – Specialist on staff cheers up, given facial adornment : ATTACHE
5-down – Fans removing clothing in part of game : OVER
6-down – During school, outcast turned up advanced means of deterring pests : INSECTREPELLENT
7-down – Involved in anarchism, need lingo of Communists : MANDARINCHINESE
14-down – Old issue, either of two in Marxism-Leninism? : BACKNUMBER
17-down – What follows 19 is to confuse revolutionary : FOXTROT
21-down – Perhaps pretentious political group out of power : ARTY
This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.