This crossword No. 24283 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Jan 2008 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24283 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Expected level has to burst, in a manner of speaking : PARLANCE
5-across – Flock to see Rex wearing skimpy underwear : THRONG
9-across – Crowing British like Kent, perhaps? : BOASTFUL
10-across – Nothing to tease if receding for hairdresser : FIGARO
12-across – 8s, Spooner’s drawing paper : ROWINGTEAMS
15-across – 8s exist among bridge opponents : WARES
17-across – First of athletes stepped into some sports arena : ASTRODOME
18-across – One’s shown vaccine after getting old : EXHIBITOR
19-across – Alien man left woman : ETHEL
20-across – Old blue tit protects one brooding close to rattlesnake : THATCHERITE
24-across – Acrophobia – suggesting 8s? : NOHEAD
25-across – Black reptile travelling west through Slough : SCORCHED
26-across – 8s packed in hairy thing, bum : BEGGAR
27-across – I wound soldier one greatly admires : IDOLISER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Itinerant drinker turning up, caught punching aggressive type : PUBCRAWLER
2-down – Tory Howard drunk, but fit to drive : ROADWORTHY
3-down – London district’s current fashion : ACTON
4-down – Hearing having apprehended officer – here? : COURTMARTIAL
6-down – Weird alien shot something from the sky : HAILSTONE
7-down – Country dipsomaniac’s drunk : OMAN
8-down – Virtuous Creator filled with love : GOOD
11-down – Chemical having treated cataract, iris almost beginning to discolour : TARTARICACID
13-down – See 24 across : FORHEIGHTS
14-down – Salamander’s agony over drinking session : HELLBENDER
16-down – Lower levels from which a prostitute’s transport pulled up : SUBSTRATA
21-down – Brought up learning to enter name – do just that : ENROL
22-down – Stud hit from below : KNOB
23-down – Bird leaves, if fuming : SHAG
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.