This crossword No. 27118 clues and answers were published on Sat 11 Feb 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27118 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Deft men retreating into mine entrance : ADROIT
5-across – Prison officer coming back to pick another ticket : REDRAW
8-across – Poet putting priests in first : IMAGIST
9-across – Supply information about organ that’s hot : SEARING
11-across – Religious code of Butterfly State gets guys encamped : TENCOMMANDMENTS
12-across – Getting on, secured one’s rank : OLID
13-across – Something in the wardrobe provoking fury after child’s first expletive : COATHANGER
17-across – Insertions into headless French right-winger’s works of scholarship : EPENTHESES
18-across – Veer to north and look ready for bed : YAWN
20-across – Revolutionary 1 24 or not, Mao and Stalin engaged in it : TOTALITARIANISM
23-across – Turned free to shroud recess in gloom : DESPAIR
24-across – Characteristic yellow rat : TRAITOR
25-across – Drum that may contain seafood? : KETTLE
26-across – Toast, or something to put on it, mostly containing trace of rennet : CHEERS
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Waist’s let out, reportedly, by one sort of trousers : DRAINPIPE
3-down – Prayer for star eclipsing sun : ORISON
4-down – Religious structure presented to another, with nothing inside : TOTEMPOLE
5-down – Product of sap to go wrong again? : RESIN
6-down – Date made off with purchase from shambles : DEADMEAT
7-down – Like a winger, one in a vehicle : AVIAN
8-down – Shy dog races round, having eaten topless outside : INTROVERTED
10-down – Bon vivant given introduction to Galileo Galilei, maybe : GASTRONOMER
14-down – Heavy drinker snaffling Scandinavian funds on time? It’s not proven : THEORETIC
15-down – Rubbish opera, La Gioconda, initially upset combatant : GLADIATOR
16-down – Dependable cooking salt applied to growth : STALWART
19-down – Cost of performer in panto receiving silver : DAMAGE
21-down – Suspicion of discrimination : TASTE
22-down – Clipped end of secret language : TERSE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.