This crossword No. 24641 clues and answers were published on Sat 07 Mar 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24641 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Runs a bit in stressful competition : RATRACE
5-across – Community going in opposite directions has to seek to recover : RECLAIM
9-across – Doctor wearing red for dance : MAMBO
10-across – Opening drink in African country, guerrilla leader : BEGINNING
11-across – Green tree’s last branch, half cut, left describing a column : VERTEBRAL
12-across – Time before born seen in regression, year becoming minute : TEENY
13-across – In the air one wing drops off, then on the ground : LYING
15-across – Boy goes round block * : ALDEBARAN
18-across – Dress has come off, clothing no good : CHEONGSAM
19-across – Capital freed from housing agreements, so relaxes : EASES
21-across – Desperate air with extremes of depression — at such a point? : NADIR
23-across – Stuff bachelor put with a Cajun dish : JAMBALAYA
25-across – Point of etiquette may be unpolitic : PUNCTILIO
26-across – Drug blow : SMACK
27-across – Knowing about award, approaching king in sombre fashion : SOBERLY
28-across – Eating endless cheese, Leicester, perhaps : EDACITY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – More gyrating, then little girl stripping : REMOVAL
2-down – How James Bond’s job application began to run smoothly * : TOMCRUISE
3-down – Plant producing laxative contains nitrogen — and nothing else? : ALONE
4-down – Show up, finding Hebridean island in awful mess : EMBARRASS
5-down – Rearing Irish setter * : RIGEL
6-down – Still after criminal — as one should be! : CONSTABLE
7-down – First to attack, be quick : ALIVE
8-down – Germany in the wars * : MEGRYAN
14-down – Dynamo, artistic type almost encapsulating poetical inspiration : GENERATOR
16-down – Standing in throne room, I meditate * : DEMIMOORE
17-down – One supporting emperor raised in a distant land — this one, perhaps? : RASTAFARI
18-down – Has the ability to work * : CANOPUS
20-down – Ringo’s real surname pressed here * : STARKEY
22-down – Turn up carrying drug * : DENEB
23-down – Happy 24? : JOLLY
24-down – Ships are all over the place : ATSEA
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.