This crossword No. 27148 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 Mar 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27148 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – No fortune for 14 : PEANUTS
5-across – A god eating five or one helping : ADVISOR
9-across – Interpreter of music outlines case of leading composer : ELGAR
10-across – 14 to damage instrument that’s cracked? : MARMADUKE
11-across – Within limits of taste, he had to bite tongue in 14 : THEFARSIDE
12-across – Fruit, cool or hot? : HIP
14-across – If maybe so, not dizzy in a spin? : CARTOONSTRIP
18-across – Leave one spaced out about vote, as a mission of Nixon’s era : APOLLOELEVEN
21-across – Tailless fish turns back : FRO
22-across – Pandemonium a degree among Yorkshire city gents, perhaps? : HULLABALOO
25-across – Shout curtailed with cricketing trophy beyond English batters? : EYELASHES
26-across – Might a girl be put out? : ISSUE
27-across – Backing singer detailed with papers for 14 : DILBERT
28-across – 14 — are you free to erase one? : RUGRATS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Quite right, inessential clothes : PRETTY
2-down – Waiter sportingly poking spleen with base of utensil : ANGLER
3-down – Urbane lad turned page ultimately — it’s garbled : UNREADABLE
4-down – Wells has a problem with empty pages : SUMPS
5-down – Where planes seen investing energy in new road, where must that road end? : AERODROME
6-down – Reportedly yucky bottle : VIAL
7-down – Relative Arthur’s dad punches — that’s to the point? : SOUTHERN
8-down – Deeper ranges, good parts for the contrabassoon, perhaps? : REEDPIPE
13-down – Building a shambles when put up, gaudy stuff : ASSEMBLING
15-down – War machine, the brute out to catch leader in conflict : TREBUCHET
16-down – 14 raising newspaper above competitors : GARFIELD
17-down – Get lost in good play, with end uplifted? : GOTOHELL
19-down – A king mixed food up, almost entirely in a state : ALASKA
20-down – Lane in 14 passes round outskirts of village in 14 : LOVEIS
23-down – Failure stood leaderless between political wings : LOSER
24-down – Held up by queen, a jocular 14 : JANE
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.