This crossword No. 28249 clues and answers were published on Sat 26 Sep 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28249 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Bird putting away pie has first-class beak : MAGISTRATE
6-across – President’s eighth vehicle? : BUSH
9-across – Cop working with lawyers is a plant : COWPARSLEY
10-across – Somewhere to kip either side of Dagenham : DORM
12-across – Delaying, blocking one with this tactic? : STONEWALLING
15-across – Mafia boss hides cockney behind new decorative covering : CAPARISON
17-across – Reverse of zero times this is number 54 : XENON
18-across – Put out Scottish team to get stripped off : ANGER
19-across – Rock music’s inspiring No 1s in prospect : PROGNOSIS
20-across – Favouring mine, one a politician’s appeasing : PROPITIATORY
24-across – Stroke sheep’s back and goat’s back : PUTT
25-across – Jack and Kelvin slicing wound that’s not dressed : STARKNAKED
26-across – Got up in something between red and white : ROSE
27-across – Promote latest odds in contest, which has many dimensions : HYPERSPACE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Minute clothing label is fake : MOCK
2-down – Peer’s wife getting into crack : GAWP
3-down – One may forget how to get in bar? : SCATTERBRAIN
4-down – What a recidivist does to get hashish, for example : RESIN
5-down – Art’s lifted mood now, Keats reveals : TAEKWONDO
7-down – More possibly out playing with key player : UTOPIANIST
8-down – Make uniform in nursing terribly soigné : HOMOGENISE
11-down – Six leaner and sporting six-footers : ALEXANDRINES
13-down – Fighter protects old man where work is rough : SCRAPPAPER
14-down – Deep Throat may reveal this stuff in dodgy toilets : EPIGLOTTIS
16-down – Ripping story about shipwreck in shaky grounds : SOPHISTRY
21-down – Knocked back pill, red and sweet : TORTE
22-down – One seabird’s rising, another’s coming down : SKUA
23-down – Python seized by intrepid lemur : IDLE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.