This crossword No. 24987 clues and answers were published on Sat 17 Apr 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24987 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Way with throw-in to right? : LANCASTER
8-across – Pole coming in presently : ANSON
9-across – See 4 : CHOCOLATE
10-across – Arab brains turned after change of air : IRAQI
12-across – How to cook fish inside without having to pay : FREELY
13-across – Fight for an apple : BLENHEIM
14-across – One minute’s silence for the French museum man : ASHMOLE
17-across – Person without energy — former minister : TYPHOON
20-across – Find record complete : DISCOVER
22-across – Big pot given to gossip : CHATTY
24-across – What’s going on in the Yard? : AFOOT
25-across – After a lot of haste I get to stick : HURRICANE
26-across – Unintelligible participant in tug of war : GREEK
27-across – Add weight here for a thematic eighth — it will dry : TOWELLING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Preventer of leak used to be female : WASHER
2-down – Setter’s crying out loud for sweet : ICECREAM
3-down – Confine sovereign under tree on field in Shaftesbury : ASHLEY
4-down – Translate from French: tobacco healthy, dessert fatal : DEATHBY
5-down – Promoter of chaos with a spanner : ANARCH
6-down – Doctors abandon oxygen : MOSQUITO
11-down – A lot of larks mean drink : BEVY
15-down – High church feature: object to female intruding : SPITFIRE
16-down – Troops in 11’s rhyme : LEVY
18-down – _____ ? Then wear a woolly hat! : HEADCOLD
19-down – Heavy defeat in scam leaves one in the soup : CROUTON
21-down – See 3 : COOPER
22-down – Former president on the wagon? : CARTER
23-down – Householder permitted article under canvas? : TENANT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.