This crossword No. 24439 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Jul 2008 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24439 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Stressful time for which the Guardian’s on grass and heroin : RUSHHOUR
9-across – Having opening for neck in the red clothes? : OWNING
10-across – Clipping of honeysuckle as yellow as a bed of roses : EASY
11-across – Print sparked off criticism, rather than art, in artist : LITHOGRAPH
12-across – Old horseman finds fish by a river : HUSSAR
14-across – Kentish aggregate, peak submerged : SEAMOUNT
15-across – Pudding I love, half of cake, readily available? : TAPIOCA
17-across – Mother tries to produce geniuses : MAESTRI
20-across – Time company retired calculating people, never ever leaving : OCCASION
22-across – A rally’s ending in love! Who’s for tennis? : ANYONE
23-across – Food suggested by team? : MINCEDMEAT
24-across – From which some qualify for passion : HEAT
25-across – Wants to find imaginative conclusion in stories : YEARNS
26-across – Ring back repeatedly, or knock : POOHPOOH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Dance partners of 26 returning as playthings? : HULAHULA
2-down – A Scottish island’s call for sailors : AHOY
3-down – Wood supplier very much liked to have middle shed : POPLAR
4-down – Bull in pain has to cry out : PROTEST
5-down – Imagine man’s widow with meat and a port : YOKOHAMA
6-down – Very much, only more somehow, impressing America : ENORMOUSLY
7-down – South African harness on the Costa del Sol, perhaps, I removed : INSPAN
13-down – One relaying messages from island: Crop failing! : SPINALCORD
16-down – Youthful nation’s short on beauty : CHILDISH
18-down – Team born to riot? : RENTAMOB
19-down – Messy bed lacking occupant, head and toes nowhere to be seen : UNKEMPT
21-down – Atrocity over a war scene : CRIMEA
22-down – Swift, perhaps, to gild god? : AUTHOR
24-down – Native American bound to have one : HOPI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.