This crossword No. 28147 clues and answers were published on Sat 30 May 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28147 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A Conservative in decline, making phony public appearance : FACADE
4-across – Sign of support rowing crew draped over a vessel’s front : FAVOUR
9-across – Golden retriever’s bark? : ARGO
10-across – Drink stored in pottery pieces for those who bring home the bacon? : SWINEHERDS
11-across – Verse Hindus, with no end of dread, composed for deity : VISHNU
12-across – They don’t appreciate empty art framed by French painter : INGRATES
13-across – Attend after male, with skill, produces vital sign : HEARTBEAT
15-across – Deal, for example, made by court with defence, initially : WOOD
16-across – Spades may be kept here, or discarded : SHED
17-across – I led a riot astray, as leader : EDITORIAL
21-across – Geometrical puzzle — left with nothing in the box? Congratulations! : MAZELTOV
22-across – Chap briefly called into unit when expected : ONTIME
24-across – Knave cut a golf club’s trees : JACARANDAS
25-across – Part of calix I analyse in plant from South Africa : IXIA
26-across – Eg Spielberg putting magnificent number in movie about time : STEVEN
27-across – Existing skill female’s lacking up front : INESSE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Overlook part of certain addresses put in number of letters in error : FORGIVE
2-down – Metonym for clergy, group in church : CLOTH
3-down – Interrupt attempt, including routines set up : DISTURB
5-down – Just off the bottom, elsewhere in sound : AWEIGH
6-down – Ring fan, perhaps, and old pro agree, possibly : OPERAGOER
7-down – Study about Edward, Henry and Elizabeth I, say : REDHEAD
8-down – Inequality of computer age discernible in this puzzle : DIGITALDIVIDE
14-down – Put back up in tree, leave in disarray : REELEVATE
16-down – In audition, pick out instrument that might be found in school : SEABASS
18-down – Newspaper magnate once producing nothing in months, oddly : THOMSON
19-down – Queen clad in a kind of silk found in cupboard : ARMOIRE
20-down – Attack from air in last RAF exercise : STRAFE
23-down – Followers that may be called out, as bit of money’s raised? : TAILS
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.