This crossword No. 25179 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 Nov 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25179 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Message from sovereign on currency : ERRAND
5-across – Letters go to the French and bingo! : LITTLE
8-across – Indication of extended writing about my return with cat : SYMPTOM
9-across – Management of sport in contest? : RUNNING
11-across – Public servant drunk Foster’s in small gallery : MINISTEROFSTATE
12-across – Antelope with no end vigorous style : ELAN
13-across – Needed support of the ass of the bridge unfinished in France : LEANEDUPON
17-across – Fight duel stupidly with student that’s very nice : DELIGHTFUL
18-across – Gilbertian with 17 26 and great 15s, chiefly 9 on 5 across 1s for his 11s : KING
20-across – Vote 1 — if on car it applied, example of 10? : ELECTRIFICATION
23-across – Gleam unevenly — keep boiling when drunk? : SHIMMER
24-across – Painter on top of stove to pour out the tea? : HOBBEMA
25-across – See 19 : WARREN
26-across – Jobs of the French with restrictions : DUTIES
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Limit intended for French novel with everything : ROMANWALL
3-down – Certify being at match : ATTEST
4-down – Mother nested wrongly having done her best : DAMNEDEST
5-down – Broadly inadequate as foil to 5 across : LARGO
6-down – Destiny travelled east from northeast : TYNESIDE
7-down – All that’s unusual in a girl’s name : LEILA
8-down – Where someone lives, say, with lighter garment : SUMMERDRESS
10-down – Fruit, not good and bad, in the business of saving the planet? : GREENAGENDA
14-down – Fed and fed, eating original first : NOURISHED
15-down – Right to take one sixth part of course in physical education : PRIVILEGE
16-down – Sandglass, say, with tiger worried about start of meal : EGGTIMER
19-down – Much of 11 on two Scots rivers points to set of tunnels : RABBIT
21-down – Musical note on sequel to 12 left out : EVITA
22-down – Ran a mile from Khan? : IMRAN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.