This crossword No. 24171 clues and answers were published on Sat 01 Sep 2007 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24171 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Aims to get it back within turns : MOTIVES
5-across – Cordovan article with small jet frame : LEATHER
9-across – Giving one run’s close on getting opener out : DONOR
10-across – Toast is behind drink : BOTTOMSUP
11-across – Mass uproar when gold’s in uncontrollable descent : FREEFORALL
12-across – 1817’s issue? : JOEY
14-across – Very frightened by a direction to pile on points : AWESTRICKEN
18-across – Something petty officer once announced at end of the line? : SMALLCHANGE
21-across – Vessel that carried naught to speak of : ARGO
22-across – Nothing reflected spot on lacy item without end product of flax : LINSEEDOIL
25-across – Celestine’s component symbolised by little Señor : STRONTIUM
26-across – Saw first team’s second reversal : AXIOM
27-across – New coinage that’s not 18 : NEOLOGY
28-across – 1918? : COPPERS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Setter’s having faithful dog cooped up to make 18 : MODIFY
2-down – Maker of 5 across’s 18 : TANNER
3-down – Elevating island on condition that one clergyman can be confirmed : VERIFIABLE
4-down – As judge’s robes when changing ends : SOBER
5-down – Alternatively, not very new or newish old language : LATELATIN
6-down – Greeting from a boat? : AHOY
7-down – Stop on way to Brighton’s pads : HASSOCKS
8-down – Salesman with a dark side of Chinese philosophy that’s good for making good : REPAYING
13-down – Officer’s bad idea to run off in secret : AIDEDECAMP
15-down – Background’s disturbed in the metropolis : ETHNICITY
16-down – When special force gets wrong killer : ASSASSIN
17-down – Organ developed in treeclimbing animal : KANGAROO
19-down – Arctic cap doesn’t have a right to regulate : POLICE
20-down – Animals having a set in 18 : LLAMAS
23-down – Tree rising with power from grounds of university : SUMAC
24-down – Open in Berlin and Oldenburg, initially : UNDO
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.