This crossword No. 27998 clues and answers were published on Sat 07 Dec 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27998 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Doctor Who includes ordinary lines and special craters : HOLLOWS
5-across – Prepared food without recipe? That’s wrong : CROOKED
10-across – Banker puts £1 back into Tyneside : NILE
11-across – Openings to shorts held apart : THRESHOLDS
12-across – Woman rejects former partner’s wing : ANNEXE
13-across – Talked at rented building : NATTERED
14-across – They liquidate lots of tea at home in three seconds : ASSASSINS
16-across – Husband’s river dwelling : HOUSE
17-across – End of episode — a three-parter? : DEATH
19-across – Poor niece sure has hunger : ESURIENCE
23-across – After surgery, confident 4’s been removed on the other side : OPPOSITE
24-across – Easily beat old steeplechaser going the wrong way : MURDER
26-across – At the start of a month, before bored doctor made out : DECIPHERED
27-across – Tailless flying elephant? I’m speechless : DUMB
28-across – Shakespeare’s slander? : ASPERSE
29-across – Strong iron forged into 50 small coins : FLORINS
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Determines the position of in-store clobber : ORIENTS
3-down – Lord’s story about expanding borders : LIEGE
4-down – See top of wig — it’s on head : WITNESS
6-down – Struggle raising temperature on subsequent attempts : RESITS
7-down – A stratospherically bad environmental issue? : OZONEHOLE
8-down – Infinit? : ENDLESS
9-down – Tool ensuring sharp designs : PRUNINGSHEARS
15-down – God’s first person in Australia gets English permit : AUTHORISE
18-down – Articulate former journalists : EXPRESS
20-down – How to make me older? : REMODEL
21-down – Sailor can jail band over onset of war : CREWMAN
22-down – When things go bump? : NIGHTS
25-down – Two-way detection system : RADAR
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.