This crossword No. 24993 clues and answers were published on Sat 24 Apr 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 24993 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Those following a star with cool clobber : FANCLUB
5-across – See 4 : PUDDING
9-across – Mixed colour, including white, for tree : ROWAN
10-across – 5 across taken alone, containing hamster, say, stuffed with last of gerbil : APPLETART
11-across – Without restraint from unscrupulous Sun reporter, took the initiative : UNSHACKLED
12-across – Don’t go from lentils to pizza : STOP
14-across – Potentially tricky food items? : HOTPOTATOES
18-across – He sang, as singer did to cuckoo : OTISREDDING
21-across – Unfinished cut of beef pie : FLAN
22-across – Mince redolent in cut of meat : TENDERLOIN
25-across – Fine in head, figure not entirely right for mind : LOOKAFTER
26-across – Earliest Greek character’s Eureka, pressing disc : ALPHA
27-across – Cornish author Christopher, short of wood, finding branch in the wind? : SWISHER
28-across – German company reaching peak finances authority : AUDITOR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Is the lowest tide so unconventional? : FAROUT
2-down – Most recent two or three points? : NEWEST
3-down – 24 or chipolatas, then traditional dish : LANCASHIRE
4-down – Want to take pride initially in developing traditional dish : BLACK
5-down – Meat — go with Argentina’s favourite one : PEPPERONI
6-down – Source of meat, or honey, say : DEER
7-down – I cannot, I suspect, show idleness : INACTION
8-down – One with an opener starts to play ambitious shots to get out : GATEPOST
13-down – Traditional dish requiring passion, having bondage during party : BANGERSAND
15-down – Old MCC president with whom phone tapper catches English theologian : TEDDEXTER
16-down – These should rise, so being half full, raised : SOUFFLES
17-down – European capital moving into Italian food : RIGATONI
19-down – See 3 : HOTPOT
20-down – So is redhead a bit thick? : UNFAIR
23-down – Skin apparently sore, coming up to a degree : DERMA
24-down – See 13 : MASH
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.