This crossword No. 27633 clues and answers were published on Sat 06 Oct 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27633 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Two chessmen, one of which captures a third : KINGPRAWN
8-across – Motor racing, timid? Unlikely : FISHY
9-across – One gathers pearls from margins of sandbank in river delta, instead of its head : SKINDIVER
10-across – Pound backs dollar : SQUID
12-across – Imposes the first of taxes to be extracted from Hebrews : LEVIES
13-across – Diverge, argue, make up … friends at last, eternally : FORKEEPS
16-across – Coarse material to add fire to dance : HOPSACK
19-across – Filthy lout, not unknown, witnessed speaking : OBSCENE
22-across – Perform B major composition, part of opening : DOORJAMB
25-across – D’oh sounds as if it could be doe, pre-Middle English : DEARME
27-across – Finding a place for octopus in gastronomic display : USING
28-across – Freely flow with abuse to make Spooner go crazy : BLOWAFUSE
29-across – See 3 : DEMER
30-across – Bend, use handle and let go : UNLEASHED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Get beast to go uphill : WINKLE
2-down – CIA, NCA etc, with powers to use silver to displace cannabis : AGENCIES
3-down – Ferret around: is mud involved? : FRUITS
4-down – Small shirt holds little to note, or nothing at all : SWEETFA
5-down – It could be lobster pot : BISQUE
6-down – Marines dispersed throughout vessel : SHRIMP
11-down – Cook rapidly and boil heads : CRAB
14-down – Boatman reported for watch : EYE
15-down – Female shellfish, easily caught : SHE
16-down – Caught fish with nowhere to leave boat! : HAD
17-down – Expert the right wing excluded from conclusive arguments : PRO
18-down – Oddly cold arms : CLAM
20-down – Factory ship processed missing parts of pot : CRAYFISH
21-down – Boatman unequalled : ABALONE
23-down – Funny story, having Enigmatist its lead character : OYSTER
24-down – Melt tip and root of eggplant stuffed into razor shell : RENDER
25-down – The way this clue’s solution goes, the editor might be drunk : DOWNED
26-down – Might put into speech : MUSSEL
This crossword has in total 32 where 14 are across and 18 are down.