This crossword No. 28979 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Jan 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 28979 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Looking for Eastern investment in capital once : PEEKING
5-across – Problem on the phone, call Austen character : DILEMMA
9-across – Bedouin’s domain, not one to be tampered with : NOMAD
10-across – Form features instant fights : TICKBOXES
11-across – Charged with disrupting first half of Ariana Grande performance : ARRAIGNED
12-across – Radioactive element and/or manufactured gas : RADON
13-across – Off the cuff in 9 6 : ADLIB
15-across – Strange times covered by great work of knowledge : EPISTEMIC
18-across – Fish scales and water? : STARSIGNS
19-across – Went out, being old : DATED
21-across – Dance and drink with graduate : RUMBA
23-across – Window covers dope in out-of-sight location : BLINDSPOT
25-across – Plants start to bloom in joy : EUPHORBIA
26-across – Love for one European river or another : RHONE
27-across – Reformed sex cheat to admit Philistine employs repeated pretexts : THESAME
28-across – See 27 : EXCUSES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Old continent pagan converted by Hare Krishna at last : PANGAEA
2-down – Hugo’s character is damsel in distress about period : ESMERALDA
3-down – Primate is a bit of a gin drinker : INDRI
4-down – Pioneering book to throw big blue net around queen and country : GUTENBERG
5-down – Gambled in pieces : DICED
6-down – Blair regularly criticised for what he and Bush allegedly did to Iraq : LIBERATED
7-down – Trash poem using them? : MIXED
8-down – As organised resistance set letters out : ARSENIC
14-down – Beat supervisor with an egg? More than one! : BOSSANOVA
16-down – This month I get a flying start : INSTIGATE
17-down – See 7 : METAPHORS
18-down – Excessive number of waves? Tie up! : SURFEIT
20-down – This red revolution is not decisive : DITHERS
22-down – Structure ultimately supporting crooked palm tree : MAPLE
23-down – See 4 : BIBLE
24-down – Like some columns in a Scottish language : DORIC
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.