This crossword No. 24845 clues and answers were published on Sat 31 Oct 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24845 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Bound to return grand, do so after customs search? : REPACK
4-across – Hence 5 request : SOLICIT
9-across – Over fifty? Wrong! : FORTYFIVE
10-across – Train, one behind his partner? : GROOM
11-across – Heavy metal fan composer’s knocked over, given oxygen : GREBO
12-across – Vessel morphing to a lab vessel : CANALBOAT
13-across – See 17 : EXPRESS
15-across – Producing square eggs, might you lose? : MISLAY
17-across – E, say, on this for the trip of a lifetime once? : ORIENT
19-across – What toothless parrot might have to do when talking to do well : SUCCEED
22-across – Standard 21, as may be pronounced? : TRICOLOUR
24-across – When turning, bend back bones : SACRA
26-across – See 5 : EAGLE
27-across – Quite unfortunate about the gutlessly self-important : POOTERISH
28-across – Man manipulating the whole currency, nothing less : MASSEUR
29-across – Small and plump, short and 23 : STUBBY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – One moving home’s new free housing great, with roof missing : REFUGEE
2-down – See 7 : PUREE
3-down – Describing old tea only brewed in Leicester, say, less hot : CEYLONESE
4-down – I’m still deciding to support backbone : STERNUM
5-down – Lawyer on beer: lager not entirely wasted : LEGAL
6-down – See 20 : CHOCOLATE
7-down – Something concentrated on river in book : TOMATO
8-down – Go over shortly, as something thrown : DISCUS
14-down – Hero’s left leaving Capulet or, WS’s writings suggested, his departure tempered melancholia? : PARTINGIS
16-down – See 14 : SUCHSWEET
18-down – Story written up about old soldier : TROOPER
19-down – See 14 : SORROW
20-down – 14 16? : DEATHBY
21-down – Run school division : STREAM
23-down – Orders last of cake — though evidently shouldn’t? : OBESE
25-down – Top a ton, one of four if human? : CLIMB
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.