This crossword No. 27310 clues and answers were published on Sat 23 Sep 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27310 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
5-across – Beam over window for Spooner? : LENTIL
6-across – North American bird destroying its eggs, a number being squashed : CANUCK
9-across – Commercial is about to grab the nation : ADSUKI
10-across – Flow of water not choppy when darkness falls? : EVENTIDE
11-across – A short distance to the west : LIMA
12-across – A dreadful torment has this person spinning before death : ANTEMORTEM
13-across – Accountant and bishop meet outside front of abbey : BEANCOUNTER
18-across – Belly upset in bumpy tours made by vehicle : TROLLEYBUS
21-across – Thereupon chatter but not quietly : SOYA
22-across – Playing partners, frightful bimbos showing social discrimination : SNOBBISM
23-across – Game needing number but one missing, right? : RUNNER
24-across – Car and train about to be scrapped : HEARSE
25-across – Chamber in which worker has drink : ANTRUM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Fashionable aspect conceals fellow acting like a beast : INHUMANE
2-down – Old Roman building from which British Academy’s removed quartz : SILICA
3-down – Chaps on Thames maybe having a fixed period in overcrowded city : WATERMEN
4-down – Second grade, say : BUTTER
5-down – Boy getting left — tot, that is : LADDIE
7-down – Pull the wool over the old French commander’s eyes? : KIDNEY
8-down – Anti-personnel device — one burnt furiously, restricting revolutionary crowd : NEUTRONBOMB
14-down – Home flooded by one river rising is most disadvantaged : NEEDIEST
15-down – Queen on island set up place for prince : ELSINORE
16-down – Female to pull wife away : FRENCH
17-down – School story — see them in the auditorium? : LYCEUM
19-down – Place for scientific working party : LABLAB
20-down – Keeping nothing for throwing away : STRING
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.