This crossword No. 25089 clues and answers were published on Sat 14 Aug 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25089 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Making progress, as are friends? : GETTINGON
6-across – Hit power for light : LAMP
8-across – The Beatles, perhaps, playing for us: Ringo’s back with Paul : FOURSOME
9-across – See 26 : INMIND
10-across – A diminutive left back given yard as room for manoeuvre : LEEWAY
11-across – See 24 : THEMOUTH
12-across – Greek character catching on with a ton of speech sounds : PHONIC
15-across – See 2 : THETOWEL
16-across – Went I re hole? : ALLINALL
19-across – Ease decimal point to the front : SOFTEN
21-across – Dickensian character stretched, say, Elizabeth to become star : BIGTIMER
22-across – M — give it ten? : HANDIN
24-across – Go blue — B? : DOWNIN
25-across – Cut off gent’s ear in a frenzy : ESTRANGE
26-across – B — carry rain? : BEAR
27-across – Sovereign, dirty colour : ROYALBLUE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 22 across : GLOVE
2-down – Dr Castier? : THROWIN
3-down – Cream like a Welshman? : IVORY
4-down – Gritty novel about English bird : GREYTIT
5-down – Unable to sniff, possibly, keeping one quiet : NOISELESS
6-down – African river burst through stretched wheels : LIMPOPO
7-down – Platypus, say, hides first of nuggets in low plant, eating McDonald’s : MONOTREME
13-down – Sing Crackle? : HOLEINONE
14-down – Digger, I’m clear, needing no ground : COALMINER
17-down – Extract from chaplain to nervous chanter : INTONER
18-down – Criminal nearly caught for theft of personal property : LARCENY
20-down – Flier takes soldier in crash : FANTAIL
22-down – Books into the infernal place, though not quite Fawlty Towers, say? : HOTEL
23-down – Exposed to wind, not a place for fire : INGLE
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.