This crossword No. 24021 clues and answers were published on Sat 10 Mar 2007 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24021 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Wild flower given beauty treatment : MANICURE
9-across – 40% of 11’s problem doesn’t start with marriage : UNION
10-across – See 15 : WAGS
11-across – 26 person’s dance, back to front, in back-to-front housetop : FOOTBALLER
12-across – Scholar’s day without vehicle : SAVANT
14-across – Teach a student to be laid-back : INFORMAL
15-across – Greek character composed light ode about 11s’ 25 and 6s – defining their relationships? : THETAIL
17-across – Be subjected to German and hence Latin : UNDERGO
20-across – Extremely narrow boundary prone to recession : HAIRLINE
22-across – Diminutive drunk : TIDDLY
23-across – Architect’s frame for collection containing retrograde art : ARCHITRAVE
24-across – Arachnid’s modest contribution : MITE
25-across – Backstitch securing 4 members of 9 : WIVES
26-across – Disclose secrets about wine, putting the game first : SPORTING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Gourd puts a research establishment in the money : CALABASH
2-down – Highway’s prepared to conceal draught excluder from arachnophobe : MISS
3-down – See 2 : MUFFET
4-down – Popular detectives holding book up : DEMOTIC
5-down – It provides the extra kick of wearing headgear : TURBOFAN
6-down – Favourite filly to fling rider off? : GIRLFRIEND
7-down – Insides of rising ridge bearing North : ENTERA
13-down – Possess pudding before perfume : AFTERSHAVE
16-down – Old fool’s condition rendering one so timid : IDIOTISM
18-down – North American exclamation about : GELATINE
19-down – Pearls cast before swine ultimately causing setback : RELAPSE
21-down – Torments Cockney with darts : ARROWS
22-down – See 15 : THEDOG
24-down – Ancient account of gloomy thoughts : MYTH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.