This crossword No. 27022 clues and answers were published on Sat 22 Oct 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27022 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Boarder’s entrance examination’s ending in silence, physicist heard : GANGPLANK
6-across – Wine — how’s it going down the Champs Elysées? No comment! : CAVA
8-across – He wrote something spicy about Mikado’s principal : CUMMINGS
9-across – Subtlety is absent in pest : NUANCE
10-across – Political bloc spilling claret : CARTEL
11-across – Tom, try Beaujolais nouveau, reason for party celebration? : ABSOLUTE
12-across – Barolo’s capital, just brilliant! : BRIGHT
15-across – Ecstasy and sin with vino in motion picture : ENVISION
16-across – Cunning popular in force as authoritarian : MARTINET
19-across – Termite’s heading beyond place for an insect : LOCUST
21-across – One wine knocked back, then another oddly? That’s the reality! : ITSAFACT
22-across – See 3 : BEATER
24-across – See 26 : DAMORE
25-across – See 11 : MAJORITY
26-across – Instrument lout stuffed with cheese, filling hollow one : OBOE
27-across – No revolution in US state is darkly active : NOCTURNAL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Being worshipped around Utrecht primarily, a cheese : GOUDA
2-down – Label the Guardian revolutionary : NAMETAG
3-down – Cheese round new table for garage worker : PANEL
4-down – Calm, outstanding union leader, equally wise : ASSUAGE
5-down – Man is up for scrofula : KINGSEVIL
6-down – Drink with endless joy, a wine : CHABLIS
7-down – Those charged in Richmond, say, for holidays : VACATIONS
13-down – Possible Sunday lunch, as whisky served up in mug : ROASTLAMB
14-down – Bird climbing a mountain to circle a tropical tree : TONKABEAN
17-down – Drink wine that’s fragrant : TEAROSE
18-down – Greatly revered in epic, I met Othello on the rise : TOTEMIC
20-down – Upset feeling, as series about King Arthur ends : CHAGRIN
22-down – Small and tasteful, insect-flavoured gravy, might you say? : BIJOU
23-down – Praise old airline to the sky : EXTOL
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.