This crossword No. 24683 clues and answers were published on Sat 25 Apr 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24683 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – 9 that was, according to 5 — a musical sound : GREECE
4-across – Game heard to be in prospect, according to poet : TENNYSON
9-across – Singular 20 on beginning of Georgie Fame : GLORY
10-across – Without much of a dance, breaks the ice perhaps with lots and lots of potential : MEGAVOLTS
11-across – I’ll see if there are chemicals in Boris — one’s uncertain : BIOSENSOR
12-across – Bird used to be very hungry : RAVEN
13-across – Kite flown in place of golf ball after I get a pound inside : TRIALBALLOON
17-across – Old coin, Indian and Burmese, in a novel : ANNAKARENINA
20-across – Prison’s what rejects are for : BIRDS
21-across – Second sight where French girl’s wedding’s in the past : ESPOUSALS
23-across – African gives Spanish shouts during French leave : CONGOLESE
24-across – 5’s 22 fell — Bingo! : HOUSE
25-across – Some lines in mental health show the opposite of freshness : SALINITY
26-across – Enthusiastic model following Forest : ARDENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Good one for oratory, yet maybe takes up a lot of space : GIGABYTE
2-down – Point for joker holding on to what will pay : ECONOMIC
3-down – Outlaw celebrated by Georgie Fame with carthorses around? : CLYDE
5-down – Poet on parade with legal characters : EDGARALLANPOE
6-down – No painter of Delft could tell what 5’s 12 said : NEVERMORE
7-down – Girl and boy not finally down in the mouth : SALIVA
8-down – Being a detective suggests silence with entry of 20 from Keats : NOSING
10-down – Does Deceived by magnetism mean a mess is being made of it? : MISMANAGEMENT
14-down – Pine for old golf club for use at diabolical table : LONGSPOON
15-down – To remove wrong ideas of God is a bus exposé : DISABUSE
16-down – Spare the criminal with a record : RAPSHEET
18-down – Counter beginners’ account at the Guardian : ABACUS
19-down – University kingdom? : BRUNEL
22-down – Personal pronouns of the old school : USHER
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.