This crossword No. 27268 clues and answers were published on Sat 05 Aug 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27268 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Nothing left in river for sheep : FOLLOWER
9-across – China bearing in the same direction, after a little time : TEASET
10-across – Heading for trouble, cuddle gorilla : THUG
11-across – Worked like a phone, perhaps, having screwed up both nuts : PUSHBUTTON
12-across – Duck flew backwards into rat : CANARD
14-across – Bird leading fish : STARLING
15-across – Prayer books, whatever : LITANY
17-across – Six short loose dresses, Serbian, perhaps? : SLAVIC
20-across – Turkey keeps messy room cleaner : FLOORMOP
22-across – Right in bear, a little hair : STRAND
23-across – Butcher avid, target fell : GRAVITATED
24-across – Mule, perhaps, finding love in lady : SHOE
25-across – Animal on a thoroughfare, chicken or mouse? : COWARD
26-across – Ending in Germany, look out : YACHTING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bath fluid filling other half of hood put into storage : MOTHBALL
2-down – Slimy thing one’s shot : SLUG
3-down – Southpaw’s head rubbed lightly, as hit : SWIPED
4-down – Sloth drinking bath, the little thing hammered? : STUBNAIL
5-down – Ingenious brackets against girder fixed at one end : CANTILEVER
6-down – Lion in for horse : HEROIN
8-down – Weather is embraced by spider, perhaps? : RESIST
13-down – Vanuatu or Eritrean capital’s diverse style : ARTNOUVEAU
16-down – Worm meat done in a stew : NEMATODE
18-down – Shark identified fox : CONFOUND
19-down – Eating too much, mole suffering with pimples : SPOTTY
21-down – Young male hogs run over to get a bit of bacon : LARDON
22-down – Beguile with something to chew up during date : SEDUCE
24-down – Location of some animals, it emerges : SITE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.