This crossword No. 25017 clues and answers were published on Sat 22 May 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25017 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Twitch? Preferably keep still and … : WATCHTHEBIRDIE
8-across – … look happy for a second’s length : SMILE
9-across – Cream upset around reverting flower of marsh plant : REEDMACE
11-across – Put container in here for fodder : HERBAGE
12-across – See 1 down : TERRIER
13-across – Wellington’s starter, soup : GUMBO
15-across – Alternative to 8 after 1 across, for example — brie, for example : SAYCHEESE
17-across – Assemble and help endlessly and assist : LENDAHAND
20-across – Put a back on an old storyteller : AESOP
21-across – Country in exchange with a lot of 23s? : NIGERIA
23-across – Much cold has its effect, my dear fellow : OLDCHAP
25-across – Anti-Mass disposition? : SATANISM
26-across – Girl as target, possibly? : AIMEE
27-across – Chlorophyll’s work in getting people together to 1 across etc? : PHOTOSYNTHESIS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Hi! Whistler granted possibility to lead the Queen’s dog : WESTHIGHLAND
2-down – The former Queen leaves 12 — for essayist? : TRIER
3-down – Scots have parent to master bruise : HAEMATOMA
4-down – Gear in which one can work together or die : HARNESS
5-down – Manner of speaking by heart, maybe : BREATHY
6-down – Old poet’s first book has page missing : RIMER
7-down – Spiteful behaviour : ITCHINESS
10-down – Ecological stimuli are hot stuff : GREENPEPPERS
14-down – Treatise on gas that turns up in cleaner hydrogen : MONOGRAPH
16-down – A new Ted in the old Ted? That’s how it will all end : HEATDEATH
18-down – I’m after a grandmother as a liar : ANANIAS
19-down – Porter or graduate in academic dress? : DOORMAN
22-down – Was he leaving the washer-dryer to cook? : ROAST
24-down – Sound of activity to American is good for the soil : HUMUS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.