This crossword No. 26322 clues and answers were published on Sat 26 Jul 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26322 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – See 22 down : CROWFLIES
6-across – Bird magazine : TIME
8-across – Robin redbreast’s opening wings to accelerate, furiously flying : AIRBORNE
9-across – See 3 : EQUALS
10-across – Old publisher picks up on leader in Times : HEARST
11-across – Stone after May, the new birthstone for February : AMETHYST
12-across – Flower power, hugging resistance : STREAM
15-across – Star in girl here, you bet! : LASVEGAS
16-across – Prison bog aligned with one of 24’s characters, initially lacking : BELMARSH
19-across – Lib-Dem and Labour leaders arrested : NICKED
21-across – One’s bowled over by girl, a maiden in Madrid : SENORITA
22-across – Backplate for armadillo, perhaps? : ANIMAL
24-across – Author who’s more devious? : ARCHER
25-across – Straightening muscle enters ox with a bit jiggling : EXTENSOR
26-across – It is so amazing making egg noodles for starters : AMEN
27-across – Wet and naked, display rear in defiance and something on one’s finger : SHOWERING
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Conservative potentate up for perjury, perhaps : CRIME
2-down – Tory author : OSBORNE
3-down – 24’s e-book? : FIRST
4-down – I ask to safeguard leaders in expedition, frozen in glacial collapse : ICEFALL
5-down – Some egoist, even so, notorious author : STEVENSON
6-down – Difficult problem for gangster : TOUGHIE
7-down – Drink uses fish : MILKSHAKE
13-down – Whistler constrained by impossible mother, leaving that place : THEREFROM
14-down – Planet going around like the sun, day approaching fast : MARDIGRAS
17-down – Bird — tailless bird in daydream : MOORHEN
18-down – Chuck contents of shoe, for the boot : HEAVEHO
20-down – Drink, one in tune with Italy : CHIANTI
22-down – 24’s going straight? : ASTHE
23-down – See 3 : AMONG
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.