This crossword No. 27573 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Jul 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27573 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Bait cricketer : SPINNER
5-across – Casual attempt to secure image : POTSHOT
9-across – Get out good fashionable clothes : HOPIT
10-across – Spooner up for distortion by design : ONPURPOSE
11-across – Pretty boy playing with Arsenal : REASONABLY
12-across – Wet grass : WEED
14-across – Good health looking problematic then? : MUDINYOUREYE
18-across – European enquiry given testament in sharp, English wit : QUENTINCRISP
21-across – Machiavellian shackling Catholic, I see! : ARCH
22-across – Train to capital crossing river, its effect disorienting : OPTICALART
25-across – Setter reversed a state that’s flow : EMANATION
26-across – Drug dealer, one often over the limit? : SPEED
27-across – Make up accent, funny case of boring joke : PUTONES
28-across – Rock garden ends, we hear, in South American capital : CAYENNE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Field ball : SPHERE
2-down – Active as an actor? : INPLAY
3-down – Decent result of spring-cleaning? : NOTSODUSTY
4-down – Drink draught up, guzzling juice : RIOJA
5-down – Underground worker, Dickens character ending on burdensome early shifts : PIPELAYER
6-down – Initials of tiresome egotist revealing my name : TERM
7-down – Trotters cut, evidently bleeding, cleaned : HOOVERED
8-down – Judge accepts bound to be more happening? : TRENDIER
13-down – Operative in USSR, possibly peripherally as foreign agent : RUSSIANSPY
15-down – A pinhead introduced to pub grub as a toddler? : INNAPPIES
16-down – Just winning, prepare for a fight : SQUAREUP
17-down – See 26 : MERCHANT
19-down – See 27 : FACEON
20-down – Some turkey heads and old goose wings filling dish : STODGE
23-down – Charged I note, first sent off : IONIC
24-down – A shade flatter : FAWN
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.