This crossword No. 28620 clues and answers were published on Sat 04 Dec 2021 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28620 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Smooth attempt to come across a Martian, perhaps? : PLANETARY
10-across – Return Yankee, libelled now and then : YIELD
11-across – Learned environment made bends in A1! : ACADEME
12-across – Catty old pontiff? : LEONINE
13-across – What edition embodies couldn’t stand : HATED
14-across – Boss’s sore back leads to withdrawal from society : RECLUSION
16-across – A nine-ounce bloom developed rarely : ONCEINABLUEMOON
19-across – Inevitable European tax not binding : NECESSARY
21-across – Queen maybe inspires a rare measure in Hatton Garden : CARAT
22-across – Light displays academician opening golden eggs : AURORAE
23-across – Georgia twice runs home pioneering flyer : GAGARIN
24-across – Craving to own new Sierra : RANGE
25-across – English timeless portrait: ‘A Northern Hedonist’ : EPICUREAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Front-page lead story on county’s a drop in the ocean : SPLASHDOWN
2-down – Full of stars, Rhode Island’s avoided by festival critic : GALACTIC
3-down – It orbits Neptune before appearing in November papers : NEREID
4-down – Large plain stable dam : MARE
5-down – Contemptuously replacing nitrogen with chlorine at regular intervals : CYCLICALLY
6-down – Coy nurse trained guiding light : CYNOSURE
7-down – Joe’s guarding controversial artist’s The Twins : GEMINI
8-down – Changed gear crossing border : EDGE
14-down – We are naked, writhing, aroused again : REAWAKENED
15-down – Almost a ton of ice : NINETYNINE
17-down – Introduced resident needing surgery : INSERTED
18-down – Silly error is crushing drug for 9 models : ORRERIES
20-down – Smoke that surrounds local star : CORONA
21-down – Disheartened company proclaimed rising stars : CYGNUS
22-down – Hirsute, topless, nonchalant : AIRY
23-down – Earth goddess’s odd features of gravitas : GAIA
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.