This crossword No. 26938 clues and answers were published on Sat 16 Jul 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26938 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Make awful, primitive sound: No iron in river! : UGLIFY
5-across – Valuation reduced with chain cut off : ESTRANGE
9-across – Secret drinker reaches end of line in Morecambe? : ESOTERIC
10-across – Withdraws new state in America : UNSAYS
11-across – Coastal country footballer disheartened by team’s kit : GAZA
12-across – State, once, of seed-covered, wild youth : SOUTHYEMEN
13-across – Craft stones: half a smacker : JETSKI
14-across – It’s lucky the composer, Guy, gets left out : TALISMAN
16-across – Turn your hand to flat-pack furniture with this? : ALLENKEY
19-across – Where some academics collect one exercise, as basis for play? : SCRIPT
21-across – Off-colour anagrams emerge thus : OUTOFSORTS
23-across – See 6 : BASE
24-across – Not an owner stocking quality unit? : DENIER
25-across – Awful weapon verges on a non-ring explosive : NERVEGAS
26-across – Casual tense employed in old female soldiers’ essays : ATTEMPTS
27-across – Aware of not just X’s and Z’s being pronounced? : WISETO
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Subterfuge a vital expedient, when one’s lacking as a writer : GUSTAVEFLAUBERT
3-down – Crying salty secretion found here! : INTEARS
4-down – Standard police department’s check : YARDSTICK
5-down – Measurement unit applied to low grade reddish-brown coat : ENCRUST
6-down – Contact that hurts me — possibly beats being on the outside : TOUCH
7-down – Swelling muscles tax : ABSCESS
8-down – Author bloke made off on drugs with Neddy, a TV presenter : GUYDEMAUPASSANT
15-down – Goes on and on about blemish that leads to blown fuse? : LASTSTRAW
17-down – Affecting revolutionary book one has : EMOTIVE
18-down – Minimum wear, if frosty, round northern rocks : YFRONTS
20-down – Like Adam, after Eve cut down the tormenting? : RIBLESS
22-down – See 11 : STRIP
This crossword has in total 28 where 16 are across and 12 are down.