This crossword No. 26394 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 Oct 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26394 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Around the third of January, today it’s cold for our dance marquee — so play begins : NOWISTHE
9-across – Ram and monkey finally getting close : STUFFY
10-across – See 8 : WINTER
11-across – Beginning to disprove negative principle, disease on the decline : DYINGOUT
12-across – Bound to find drink laced with drug : LEAP
13-across – Informal correspondents retain a day to send letters : PENFRIENDS
15-across – Unhappy to concede a stroke as a player : DOWNBOW
16-across – Spar with Cameron amid cheers, perhaps : TOPMAST
18-across – Entering Fido’s ground, sign has got significance primarily in this part of London? : ISLEOFDOGS
19-across – Please continue to be a thug : GOON
20-across – Transport around a cold, getting sick — that’s a bug : BACILLUS
22-across – Tell supporter at the back to cheer : RELATE
23-across – See short man in woman’s hat : CLOCHE
24-across – Jack, queen, king and ace not extremely unusual : ABERRANT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Force man to study in the law firm : POLICECONSTABLE
2-down – Some silver providing class in epic fence off : FIFTYPENCEPIECE
3-down – Rioting from troops resistant to the force of powerful elements : STORMPROOF
4-down – Gauge measurement for Berkshire town : READING
5-down – Wine tipped up into fruit salad : ASTI
6-down – Musicians welcoming five hundred dancing emus gatecrashing concert, as not much on when swimming in Australia? : BUDGIESMUGGLERS
7-down – See 8 : OFOURDISCONTENT
14-down – Partition in church, where orders once carried out : ROODSCREEN
17-down – Hole in small chamber where bread absorbs much water : LOOSEAT
21-down – Say something to spring vegetable : LEEK
This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.