This crossword No. 26681 clues and answers were published on Sat 19 Sep 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26681 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Wind up close to Stonehenge, stone almost blown over : ENRAGE
4-across – Start high, then go down : OFFSET
9-across – Please send money urgently or Click here to claim your prize are plots to be rejected : SPAM
10-across – About two hundred bananas eaten up — three hundred more despised! : UNACCEPTED
11-across – House for the fifth primate? : ORANGE
12-across – Most bizarre, keeper’s header has beaten Stoke 1- 0 : KOOKIEST
13-across – Concert at which I perform karaoke likely to improve? : PROMISING
15-across – Hero going after rebel in uprising? : LION
16-across – Busy route going over across yacht : MAXI
17-across – Self-indulgence thus with kissers is beginning to mount : SOLIPSISM
21-across – Interrupting date, parent wearing nothing returns in checks : EXAMINES
22-across – Revolutionary musical director’s opening a case : DATIVE
24-across – Drunk, I’m at peace swigging last of gin, set free : EMANCIPATE
25-across – Bloody career’s ending, time to retire : RARE
26-across – Series of tests on small items of clothing : SASHES
27-across – Positive thing about old network : PLEXUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 2 : EMPEROR
2-down – One is among divine royalty, as leader : ROMAN
3-down – Throne’s occupant left in 2011, according to a 2 1, initially upset with Augustus : GLUTEUS
5-down – Cap for football player, a contribution : FACTOR
6-down – Pietism aggravated split in the Americas for 2 1 : SEPTIMIUS
7-down – In conclusion, royalist thinking it’s an offence : TREASON
8-down – Place snail owns spiralling, as a working rule : PARKINSONSLAW
14-down – 2 1 saw in the Guardian a burden retaining human resources : MAXIMINUS
16-down – See 3 : MAXIMUS
18-down – Be permanently present at the bottom of a shaft, drinking ditchwater, primarily : INDWELL
19-down – See 6 : SEVERUS
20-down – One new face serving porridge? : INSIDE
23-down – See 14 : THRAX
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.