This crossword No. 24671 clues and answers were published on Sat 11 Apr 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24671 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Leading article absorbed by red carpet : REPRIMAND
6-across – Chives divided with charm in default of a new system : CAPITALISM
11-across – Tired way for youth to go : WEST
12-across – I supply resin and wood at scholarship time : BURSERA
13-across – Conspicuous dwelling without store of food : FLAGRANT
14-across – Eye corners with songster nearly this : CANTHI
15-across – Quality of a lot of books in church : CALIBRE
17-across – Boy with sigh of affection for me, right way up : LADDER
18-across – Cages in select version of how things are : CEST
20-across – Stories about camel having saved galaxy : ANDROMEDA
22-across – Calculator in gas plant : CACTUS
24-across – See 18 : LAVIE
25-across – Get moving with book featuring animals and Spaniard returning with spirit : BESTIRONESELF
26-across – The Californian port’s official rite, maybe the last : THESACRAMENTOFUNCTION
31-across – Serpentine grower, taking a number by bus, misread wordbook : VIPERSBUGLOSS
35-across – Religious addict as linchpin? : PIVOT
36-across – First of first sort of English with first of second Roman governor : FESTUS
37-across – Honesty and church’s enemy at one? : LUNCHTIME
38-across – Knockabout girl gets the hump : RAMP
40-across – Frightening drinks, a sign united with 11 : SCALES
43-across – Frivolous account of English journey : ETOURDI
45-across – Enter change inside and that is changed : INVADE
47-across – Dilemma with pollarded bong tree in Australia : QUANDONG
48-across – Leading light in Alcoholics Anonymous going for the hard stuff : ALUMINA
50-across – Pay time for sailor : SALT
51-across – Religious house never going to perish on its own : FRIENDLESS
52-across – Finished without stuttering nonconformist being used in anatomy lesson? : DISSECTED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Whisky — end of — and chaser in North Yorkshire : RYEDALE
2-down – Piece of crumpet I try to eat with 4s : PETIT
3-down – Setter’s got a lot of bricks at a point overlapping : IMBRICATE
4-down – Tricky word for a couple cut short by an expert artist : ABRACADABRA
5-down – Go straight? : DIE
6-down – Frogman caught burrower — it escaped : CRABB
7-down – Piper from Forfar that is drunk under piano : PIFFERARO
8-down – Be losing way : TRAIL
9-down – Film actor Peter absorbing divine account by historian Hugh : LORDDACRE
10-down – Because of something wrong with the church : SINCE
16-down – English name for French city with pride, say : LYONS
19-down – About five digits for creatures that nest under sundials and live on cheese : TOVES
21-down – Correct round number of decree : EDICT
22-down – Not carrying weapons like a whistle : CLEAN
23-down – Paid in advance a little old money in the course of cooking our books : UPFRONT
24-down – I couldn’t hear what you said in the loo about port : LEHAVRE
27-down – Giving it ecstasy would be fatal to this body : CORPS
28-down – The Spanish drink in Scotland : ELGIN
29-down – Playing five sets without it starting to interfere with celebrations : FESTIVITIES
30-down – Thank you very much: Scots scrap name from pub : TAVER
32-down – Use surgical instrument after domestic animal’s turn to peevishness : PETULANCE
33-down – American bird sees bad lad eaten by dog : BALDEAGLE
34-down – Additional article covered in gold : OTHER
35-down – Not the subject of talk about 21 losing time : PREDICATE
39-down – Giving bad name to Democrat: was leader confused? : MUDDLED
41-down – Caught and some mighty blows — the sound of cricket : CHURR
42-down – The cutter that completes the puzzle : SWORD
44-down – Shapes formed by exploding salvo : OVALS
46-down – Call girl to take pew : VISIT
49-down – Indian plant taking turn from Pakistani? : URD
This crossword has in total 57 where 27 are across and 30 are down.