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Likewise Chrise but I just ran with it on this occasion.

All in but 9. I thought my crossers were solid but I can’t can’t make sense of the anagram. Doesn’t help that I don’t know a British two letter word for policeman.

9 parses as 1,1,7. The 7 is an anagram of a word in the clue. Definition "out".

Policeman’s back yields just one letter following uniform, then a 7 letter anagram.

I thought the definition in 9 was a stretch. But I don't have Chambers, which presumably justifies it.

Hi Geeker,
The 3 letter word has 55 definitions in Chambers (and those are just the adverbs). The closest refers to being ‘away from the original or normal position or state’ which I think pretty much covers it.

Sorry Tramp. Too hard for me. I spent this morning gardening with my new gardener, who can only come on a Saturday, so was pretty tired and didn't start until 3.30pm. Read through all the clues and only got two (18d and 22ac). I then got a few more on right side. So, I looked some up on DanWord to see if that would help. I can't even see why some of the answers are right. Usually I can see the definition, but in some cases I was defeated. In the case of 14ac I can see the definition, but not the word play. I've never heard of 24ac.

1d doesn’t make sense. I really might have to give up on the cryptic on Saturday, which is a shame. But I'll get some time back for other things - lots of books to read.

Hi Roof, I for one hope you don't give up doing the Prize, I always enjoy hearing about your day and what you've been up to.

1d is actually very clever. The first word is a synonym of "open" and the second of "entrance" but not in the meaning of ingress or doorway - I find it helped to pronounce the "trance" part of 'entrance' more stretched out, if that makes sense.

I got the first word of 1d quickly. Took longer to get the second word because I was expecting something Pauline ("People go..."). 🤣

Thanks, jono. I had in mind a similar definition but was too lazy to crack open my NSOED.

I found this easier than any Guardian prize puzzles have been for some time, but there were enough challenging clues to make it enjoyable. Thanks, Tramp. FOI 13a. LOI 3d, which I struggled over for ages, but when I finally got it I liked the clue. I'm not very happy with the use of "supply" in 9a, but that's really the only clue I would criticise, which is better than average.