This crossword No. 24791 clues and answers were published on Sat 29 Aug 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24791 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Town of fortune for royal family? : HAPSBURG
5-across – One week with gross imbalance made by 38s : SIEGEWORKS
13-across – Student groups seize firm amid loud applause — they’re up to the neck in revolution : ROLLCOLLARS
14-across – Copper meets prosecutor on Scots island to fish : BARRACUDA
15-across – God’s longing to return to Fenland abbey : THORNEY
16-across – Western peak : HIGHNOON
17-across – See 24 : DALI
19-across – Made fun of authority in Scots burgh : JOKED
21-across – A knight at the opera, said bogus Welshman : FALSTAFF
23-across – Twisting the devil’s tail about article on mutiny, I’m off : LUCIAN
25-across – Former 18 member, missing on distinctive quality in it, has died: namely the black hole? : CAMERAOBSCURA
28-across – Permitted to be audible, if so : ALLOWED
31-across – See 36 down : SUTHERLAND
32-across – Jackal’s job: beware replacing setter in voice production : SCAVENGING
34-across – Fools in the soup : NOODLES
35-across – Versatility of 42 raving in lunacy : MANYSIDEDNESS
36-across – Replacing in 32’s clue is one corresponding to Eng. and : GERUND
38-across – Where church robes are — almost nothing in it — I have taken stock : INVESTOR
40-across – Pratchett’s Cecil Wormsborough St John, born into the aristocracy : NOBBS
43-across – With jihad, putting its break at the end : ANDY
44-across – Minimal amount of gold getting in through queen : VICTORIA
46-across – Benedict quiet about quarrel? : PONTIFF
50-across – 24 from 52’s country keeps mum in dance movement : ALLEMANDE
51-across – Put a real egg to be cooked before a capital fire : GREATPLAGUE
52-across – House marshal with country beloved in America : HONEYCHILE
53-across – A boy’s a boy to be flown from : STANSTED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 12 : HIRST
2-down – See 19 : POLLOCK
3-down – See 22 : BACON
4-down – See 41 : RILEY
6-down – Flushing it makes one psychologically aware : INSIGHTFUL
7-down – Keep talking about Freetown in French : GABON
8-down – See 43 : WARHOL
9-down – See 11 : READ
10-down – Florence worked here for diminution in dress : SCUTARI
11-down – Pain in both hands a little bit before commercial : RACHEL
12-down – Vagrant in hard times : DAMIEN
18-down – That Oxford club where national government’s democratic leaders are covered in solid gold : BULLINGDON
19-down – Fish, boy, fish! : JACKSON
20-down – Sweetheart takes over 4×4 without parking for tea : DARJEELING
21-down – Trifles with society like a snake : FOOTLESS
22-down – Between money and food there lives the philosopher : FRANCIS
24-down – Girl to nurse during war, otherwise boy gets back first : SALVADOR
26-down – Underground network pursued by the polis? : METRO
27-down – The soporific fairy of the South Bengali islands losing heart : SANDMAN
29-down – See 11 : WHITE
30-down – Summaries set out in lodgings : DIGESTS
33-down – Like the Field of the Cloth of Gold in the land of France for non-U Frenchman : INTERREGAL
36-down – £1,000 covers joints for old British king at US city : GRAHAM
37-down – Disaster for swimmer, both in short one ready for Red Nose Day? : RUDOLPH
39-down – Detective, in a measure, among followers : TRACEY
41-down – Game attempt to hide awful lie : BRIDGET
42-down – Could he be left in? Yes and no : SIDNEY
45-down – Set of effective powers : TEETH
46-down – Indulge Italian maybe with 4 or pain : PETIT
47-down – See 42 : NOLAN
48-down – See 23 : FREUD
49-down – See 39 : EMIN
This crossword has in total 58 where 26 are across and 32 are down.