This crossword No. 25454 clues and answers were published on Sat 15 Oct 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25454 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Fortify Mosley? Confound it! That’s what always happens to me : STORYOFMYLIFE
10-across – Disputes with watcher about people taking time : ARGUMENTS
11-across – Loner maybe put on like this outside : SADDO
12-across – Ship’s company with slow start heard on tableland : KAROO
13-across – I go back and knock hard, entering by 1, say : BIOGRAPHY
14-across – Name for lots of strips of pasta : NOODLES
16-across – Sky, it may be, keeps companion of unsophisticated taste : KITSCHY
18-across – One wearing long pants produced 13s of 23 down : JOHNSON
20-across – Body part for important person who produced 13 of 18 : BOSWELL
21-across – Paleface in political group reported — do I bother? : CAUCASOID
23-across – Absolutely sound? : PLUMB
24-across – Shows former NCOs : EXPOS
25-across – Oil producer in riot with levee being destroyed : OLIVETREE
26-across – Peg to refuse and Daddy’s on a roll : BRANDYANDSODA
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – It reverts to seed with awfully hot and gaudy flier : TIGERMOTH
3-down – It’s capital to love a lover : ROMEO
4-down – Transport books put together : OMNIBUS
5-down – Corn collected on road? Got it wrong : MISTOOK
6-down – Unction etc is commonplace in a girl : LASTRITES
7-down – Far from pleased at policeman being promoted? : FEDUP
8-down – Cheat outrageously holding high cards that may be worn out : HACKINGJACKET
9-down – Parrots talking back to very old-fashioned 15 in very long words : POLYSYLLABLES
15-down – Comic bird interrupting instruction : LESDAWSON
17-down – Money order on the debit side with squares : CHEQUERED
19-down – One odd record, unknown coinage : NEOLOGY
20-down – Digs organised during prohibition, which is ominous : BADSIGN
22-down – Superior meal with no starter : UPPER
23-down – All fools, they say, take one drug among others : POETS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.