This crossword No. 26573 clues and answers were published on Sat 16 May 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26573 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Firing line in range, the soldier at the front makes advances : FLIRTS
5-across – Joint’s disturbed rest of trendy folk : HIPSTERS
9-across – Difficult situation, said to be incontinent and choking : ASPHYXIA
10-across – Exude endless confidence : SECRET
11-across – Change round mid-coalition: no problem for Spooner : ALLITERATION
13-across – Birds seen in the Science Museum : EMUS
14-across – Amorous Italian jerk : ROMANTIC
17-across – Barbie doll information — eleven envelopes and sheets : BEDLINEN
18-across – Study hard, knocking back brandy : CRAM
20-across – Players, not all here, in French 16 : PARTICIPANTS
23-across – See 8 : DEVICE
24-across – Letters help to follow a leading parliamentarian’s humble beginnings : ALPHABET
25-across – Gates’s background : STAGESET
26-across – Working to change hands is intrusive : PRYING
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Finally, a shoe? : LAST
3-down – Tries penetrating actual drill : REHEARSAL
4-down – Cunning to include stage direction, almost in a suggestive manner : SEXILY
5-down – Earth treatment that’s organic? : HEARTTRANSPLANT
6-down – Stuff filling food from Cornwall, we hear, is beef : PASTRAMI
7-down – Implied one must be engaged in diplomacy : TACIT
8-down – It might be heard, perhaps endlessly, in valedictory cheers : RHETORICAL
12-down – Child missing, having left room later perhaps : AMBERALERT
15-down – Needed to change scenery round Syria’s borders : NECESSARY
16-down – Newcastle’s first to have footballers outside in underwear : KNICKERS
19-down – Grab skillets : SNAPUP
21-down – See 2 : THING
22-down – Act constituent heard and noticed : SEEN
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.