This crossword No. 28901 clues and answers were published on Sat 29 Oct 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28901 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Retiring jester, hot and haggard : WITHDRAWN
9-across – Returned call by American feller? : AXEMAN
10-across – Bother to boast after Surrey’s opener is a fearsome presence in the field : SCARECROW
11-across – First Hanoverian king meets First Lady in distress : GRIEVE
12-across – Such characters unsuitable for bigheads? : SMALLCAPS
13-across – Bit of scandal? It taints flipping bellicose ruler : ATTILA
17-across – French place I left for some European capital : LEU
19-across – Maybe train, going back and forward in part of badminton match? : SHUTTLE
20-across – See 19 : SERVICE
21-across – Spots knight going for a whizz : ACE
23-across – Europeans punched by awfully grim politically motivated Leaver : EMIGRE
27-across – One’s driven, say, to interrupt regressing career : ESTATECAR
28-across – Board made from elm, oddly its outer part : EMBARK
29-across – Eating date, gains soft soggy sandwiches — it’s what you get from buffets : WINDSWEPT
30-across – What gardener may want — drier clothing right? : TROWEL
31-across – Cheap floor : KNOCKDOWN
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Reward for work in mine, working around toxic gas : INCOME
3-down – Novelist grasps Latin only with real effort : HARDLY
4-down – Jacket in retro Chanel style : ROCOCO
5-down – Cry over nice house ruined, where synthetic gas explosion comes from : WHOOPEE
6-down – Defector to Labour, say, pens chapter on eliminating waste : EXCRETORY
7-down – Lacking sense, I climb high across rising rocks : IMBECILIC
8-down – A French revolutionary accepting revolutionary yarn is off-topic : UNRELATED
14-down – Girl Guide’s teeth sure to wobble : USHERETTE
15-down – Gold ring probed by policeman with caution in work we hear : AUDIOBOOK
16-down – Like chow mein from the can, not new in China : STIRFRIED
17-down – Field Australian league’s sides, at first : LEA
18-down – Speculate, losing millions in employment : USE
22-down – See 5 : CUSHION
24-down – Save coppers up like Homer? : BARDIC
25-down – What Persian maybe did in Middle East still to be paid : MEOWED
26-down – Fruit twice yearly gaining weight : PAWPAW
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.