This crossword No. 24859 clues and answers were published on Sat 21 Nov 2009 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24859 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Film valet Valentino sacked : NATIONALVELVET
9-across – Song and dance about university retirement : ROUNDELAY
10-across – Flat race leader dropped out of very fast : VAPID
11-across – Horse and cart back to front? It’s monstrous : HYDRA
12-across – Cheese straw’s started to become old hat : SAGEDERBY
13-across – Passed open hole all right : OVERTOOK
14-across – Mongrel incorporating a new genetic variation : MUTANT
17-across – Party right to the end in Tennessee bar : TAVERN
19-across – Open club in 2011, if club then not open : SANDWICH
22-across – Fellow in RAF wrote about what he took part in? : WAREFFORT
24-across – Toke finally taken from joint? Pass on to another : REFER
25-across – Wrong road for the mountain : SINAI
26-across – Language from bridge player shortly to end up in one club doubled : ICELANDIC
27-across – Very angry son goes off film : BLAZINGSADDLES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Oddly no new direction for bygone film? : NORTHNORTHWEST
2-down – Bowl along right round North Dakota lake : TRUNDLE
3-down – Painting interior of woman’s extension : OLDMASTER
4-down – Hint of troubled soul in LA : ALLUSION
5-down – Part of the gay Ovidian’s uphill journey : VOYAGE
6-down – Furious little girl wearing hat : LIVID
7-down – Stores spread around Rome and Pisa, not opening Sundays : EMPORIA
8-down – Film girl going up and down rising river on a Chester outing : ADAYATTHERACES
15-down – Roughly a hundred keeping name secret : UNDERHAND
16-down – Growths worrying Kate and Rose : OAKTREES
18-down – Italian city lights, initially hypnotic : VERONAL
20-down – Disbeliever took the initiative, providing part of UK’s upturn : INFIDEL
21-down – Poet no expert in advertising : MOTION
23-down – Fine hotel for a cat : FRITZ
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.