This crossword No. 26220 clues and answers were published on Sat 29 Mar 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26220 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Beginning of spring? That should get you going : JUMPSTART
6-across – Cool — nothing to add! : NEAT
8-across – Sack of fruit with old plant : PLUMBAGO
9-across – Arctic resident maintaining temperature — that makes sense : INTUIT
10-across – Statement by filmed divorcee, retracted : REMARK
11-across – 23 in a short run features in Guardian story : ANGELINA
12-across – Wolves team surrendering lead twice, shooting high : ACKACK
15-across – Dear me, my mongrel whined! : YAMMERED
16-across – One getting fuel emptied into buttocks, blows up : INFLATES
19-across – Spirited point in wise broadcast? : YEASTY
21-across – Spillage of onanist on pioneering physician providing parts for 23 : JENNIFER
22-across – Reportedly take offence at description of female in union : BRIDAL
24-across – 23 has a wrinkly bum : HILARY
25-across – Comment as a huge amount inside volcano backfires : ANNOTATE
26-across – See 6 down : WOOD
27-across – Odd bean, say, for bootlegger : RUMRUNNER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 11 : JOLIE
2-down – A couple of doctors like a port : MOMBASA
3-down – See 24 : SWANK
4-down – An old tree full of life originally, an exceptional thing : ANOMALY
5-down – Stick-like and sticky? But the name hasn’t stuck! : THINGUMMY
6-down – Love in contrivance of 1 down and a late 23 : NATALIE
7-down – Alliance lamenting jerks : ALIGNMENT
13-down – Formerly little money in ransom I set, necessary to rise : CENTESIMO
14-down – Toy with lift key here — helium unnecessary for toy operator : KITEFLYER
17-down – Rope in ground keeping beam up : LANYARD
18-down – Contemptuous remarks, as bones turned up in the middle of Portsmouth : SARCASM
20-down – See 21 : ANISTON
22-down – Stop a couple talking a foreign language : BANTU
23-down – One taking a part, a part that’s uninitiated : ACTOR
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.