This crossword No. 24743 clues and answers were published on Sat 04 Jul 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24743 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Plan to demonstrate mountain rescue, with many abseiling Pyrenean summits : RELIEFMAP
10-across – Sage bush given oxygen: at last, green leaves : PLATO
11-across – State briefly you’ll reply to everyone by degrees : ALABAMA
12-across – Degrees of the ocean, you might say? : CELSIUS
13-across – Depose members from Guangzhou State : OUST
14-across – About making a game of something : RECREATION
16-across – Get the full story from chap on American defeat : HEAROUT
17-across – Church is in a state about the result of Industrial Revolution : MACHINE
19-across – Midday service abolished by Conservative despots on management : SECONDPOST
22-across – Bring about change of state using billions to take a precious commodity : BOIL
24-across – Alleged drug usage by leading lady : HEROINE
25-across – Appeal to dissolute tart: end indolence : ATTRACT
26-across – Experience a change of state : TASTE
27-across – Old Jacobean tragedy of realities? : ISRAELITE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Go on oath, perhaps, bent on such as cricket’s nemesis : ORGANOPHOSPHATE
2-down – Boatman may be in a state? : ALLATSEA
3-down – Painter of French state : DEGAS
4-down – Menacing sounds all around : IMMANENT
5-down – Restates briefly about means of separation : SPACER
6-down – Perhaps iron man : APPLIANCE
7-down – State briefly: Boatman’s at bottom of trap for a beast : WAPITI
8-down – Epistle torn open in a state : POISONPENLETTER
15-down – Spooner’s upper-class type saluted, booted : HOBNAILED
17-down – A bit of a state over some land to mow down : MASSACRE
18-down – Under the same pressure as Biro : ISOBARIC
20-down – Church leader after an hour is in a state, briefly : CHRIST
21-down – State briefly using crisp reworking around central theme : PRECIS
23-down – Perfect state : UTTER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.