This crossword No. 29243 clues and answers were published on Sat 02 Dec 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 29243 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Borrow 5p and settle up with poor children’s entertainer : SPONGEBOB
6-across – See 4 Down : BUCK
8-across – Prophesy when fear has worn off : FOREWARN
9-across – See 1 : SQUARE
10-across – Sacred sound throttled by drunken Englishmen as brass band played? : TIDDLY
11-across – Wally’s better paper : FOOLSCAP
12-across – Bond, that fellow in a dress abandoning ship : ADHERE
15-across – Dreamy ingredients initially needing a stir? That’s wrong – it’s already been done! : READYMIX
16-across – See 10 : OMPOMPOM
19-across – Musical event: it’s closed in when dancing : SILENT
21-across – Dark quality in family eases, oddly : INKINESS
22-across – Musical work a player’s taken back to the beginning? : DACAPO
24-across – Beyond a kiss? : ACROSS
25-across – Like geese I ensnare, in a flap : ANSERINE
26-across – See 4 Down : ONES
27-across – Noble lot in old river cutting through isle : DOGOODERS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – European country, speaking for its people, unanimously taking part in uprising? : SUOMI
2-down – Late, more than a couple of Italians : OVERDUE
3-down – Like a plot, might one say, that’s thickened? : GRAVY
4-down – Value in financial institution maintaining good bonus? Force to change : BANGFOR
5-down – Acts of generosity in article penned by peerless members of parliament? : BESTOWALS
6-down – Kind of thinking, clearly over one’s head? : BLUESKY
7-down – Rose-tinted land of the petrolhead? : CARNATION
13-down – Cook small quantity of baked beans, perhaps, for islander : DOMINICAN
14-down – Squeeze no longer squeezed, it’s said : EXPRESSED
17-down – Forbidding love, something negative about that very thing? : OMINOUS
18-down – Wild thing ‘as to be strung up? : MUSTANG
20-down – One has scratched head after cluer anagrammatised fodder : LUCERNE
22-down – See 19 Across : DISCO
23-down – See 1 Across : PANTS
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.