This crossword No. 24123 clues and answers were published on Sat 07 Jul 2007 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24123 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – 100 watering holes secreting a mineral : CINNABAR
5-across – Complain about swallowing ounce of sedative : PROZAC
9-across – Hospital in Nottinghamshire town provides learning experience : WORKSHOP
10-across – Rabbit : ANGORA
11-across – Candidate planting a dangerous device in river : EXAMINEE
12-across – Distinctive sign of suffering in court : CACHET
14-across – Reversal of crime involves time with a society devoted to it : COSANOSTRA
18-across – Bird in type of opera given name of student : SEMINARIAN
22-across – Novelist runs into road – it’s unprecedented : RECORD
23-across – Co-nominee, almost bare, seizing high ground : NAMESAKE
24-across – New epidemic swamping Austria with larvae : NAIADS
25-across – Loss of literacy in a former monarch leading nursemaid round pub : AGRAPHIA
26-across – Promise to supply English silver to Spain : ENGAGE
27-across – Pretend to keep opener in church? Not true! : COCKEYED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Poet shrink-wraps piano : COWPER
2-down – Nation absolutely not bearing right : NORWAY
3-down – Come down, or fall sick, catching beastly disorder : ABSEIL
4-down – Kosher position for the chairman? : ABOVEBOARD
6-down – Orchestrated hoodlums assembled near tomb : RENTAMOB
7-down – Coiled python not entirely stifled by girl with sponge, perhaps : ZOOPHYTE
8-down – Catcher of STD? Nonsense! : CLAPTRAP
13-down – Artist and soldier in turn following incomplete travelling band : CARAVAGGIO
15-down – Sergeant arranged divorce : ESTRANGE
16-down – Redolent of corporal punishment : SMACKING
17-down – Common, if daring, exploit : INFRADIG
19-down – Notice of divorcee’s return : REMARK
20-down – Crack troops dance and walk with a wiggle : SASHAY
21-down – Call for many to get called up : DEMAND
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.