This crossword No. 27651 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 Oct 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27651 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
5-across – Get under someone’s skin, might it? : NEEDLE
6-across – Painter related to darkest shade, as he used to say? : RENOIR
9-across – Test buoyancy ultimately in fish : TRYOUT
10-across – Attack top and bottom : HEADBUTT
11-across – See 18 : NOSE
12-across – Erect using poles etc, obvious long parts : PITCHATENT
13-across – Where a bridge is bent : ONTHEFIDDLE
18-across – Go on sponsored walk primarily, middle of week taken off : POWDERONES
21-across – See 22 : DOWN
22-across – Applies oneself, like a gorilla? : KNUCKLES
23-across – One is oddly patchy : UNEVEN
24-across – Ticklish rear of lieutenant aroused : THORNY
25-across – Ursine, might you say? Just about : BARELY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Organ composition in fruit : MELODEON
2-down – Cunning clue for dump illegally : FLYTIP
3-down – Getting frisky, Catherine dated bit of a looker after divorce? : DETACHED
4-down – Ice has to remain in order : SORBET
5-down – Near catastrophe, question getting involved in hideous US-Korean war : NARROW
7-down – See 3 : RETINA
8-down – Matt, perhaps, in 5 20 : PHOTOFINISH
14-down – Little time in sport for speeding : HURTLING
15-down – Damaged by run, boy runs indeed? : LADDERED
16-down – Poetry like this half-cut poet served up : SONNET
17-down – Wet under thatched roof of the rural gentry? : TWEEDY
19-down – Who could be in court loading a revolver? : DOCTOR
20-down – See 5 : SQUEAK
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.