This crossword No. 24499 clues and answers were published on Sat 20 Sep 2008 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24499 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – A doctor is on team to dissect : ANATOMISE
10-across – Range put on page for show : PROVE
11-across – Wanted to take action about teacher : DESIRED
12-across – Regarding old writer that is blue, end chewed off : SCRIBAL
13-across – Grass recovered, seizing drug, certainly! : YEAH
14-across – Pensioner’s bedside companion half unsure about support put in place : FALSETEETH
16-across – Their business tracks river birds : DEEJAYS
17-across – Weapon required to retrieve a disaster for US TV ratings? : HARPOON
19-across – Companion dressed in fragrant black and white : ACHROMATIC
22-across – A former railway charity : ALMS
24-across – A beast swallowing rivervessel : AMPOULE
25-across – Heading for launch, approaching 1, deafening, having held to this moment? : LIFTOFF
26-across – Plain sweet containing last of butter : DREAR
27-across – As Mafia victims might be buried, left interred – that’s rough : INCLEMENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Up and down days plus a year, plus a … and so on : YADDAYADDAYADDA
2-down – Looking from below, ‘e catches sailor delivering poison : RATSBANE
3-down – See 7 : BOARD
4-down – A breeze, perhaps, with girl lifting device : WINDLASS
5-down – Three seconds with pie and mash to find presence of bacteria : SEPSIS
6-down – Find this after a blowout, extra fat! : SPARETYRE
7-down – Remark about s-s-snake inspiring foreign article in The Thunderer? : WOBBLE
8-down – Might such guidelines comfort worker in the conclusion of nanny state? F-farcical! : HEALTHANDSAFETY
15-down – See 17 : MANOEUVRE
17-down – Tactic designed to remove lodger from home, I reveal, in much disarray : HEIMLICH
18-down – Witness, occupying throne, king and queen : ONLOOKER
20-down – Tailless beast outside pub, one in Glyn-Neath : HYPHEN
21-down – Mention US state uprising, as kind of acid : ACETIC
23-down – Present more rotten, might you say? : OFFER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.