This crossword No. 25191 clues and answers were published on Sat 11 Dec 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25191 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Backing great Brazilian dynasty, can male set about protagonist? It’s unavoidable : ELEPHANT
9-across – See 8 : INTHE
10-across – Drink and knife man where conflict once took place : PORT
11-across – Devilish team unchristened The Red Devils : MANCHESTER
12-across – See 25 : VIRGIN
14-across – Move away with energy and speed of plane? : EMIGRATE
15-across – Vim with red bread : BRIOCHE
17-across – Out of which Renault shifted? : NEUTRAL
20-across – Defect, saving final part of national song for the country : BULGARIA
22-across – Insects concealed in bread, heads bitten off : APHIDS
23-across – Virtually no time, so doing backstroke to break ice, cold in water : PICOSECOND
24-across – See 8 : ROOM
25-across – Cooking ingredient very, very original elixir to enjoy, primarily in a stew : EXTRA
26-across – See 25 : OLIVEOIL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Little room to fail between wings of bomber, incurring more casualties : BLOODIER
2-down – Put cream on this pickle : SPOT
3-down – Men in tights : BATMAN
4-down – See 10 : STANLEY
5-down – Demonstrate, nothing less, one cutting instrument as battleaxe : FISHWIFE
6-down – If pushed, how might trousers fit after Christmas dinner? : ATASTRETCH
7-down – Seconds taken to choose, then do just that? : SELECT
13-down – Less hard, the right gigolo massaged around posterior of bus conductor : GEORGSOLTI
16-down – Death, say, from same extraordinarily piercing bugle : HORSEMAN
18-down – See 3 : ANDROBIN
19-down – Fuel thus with hydrogen locked up? : GASOHOL
21-down – See 11 : UNITED
22-down – Old spaceman finding a way to enter cipher, taking off? : ALDRIN
24-down – Passing through overhead, this bird can’t be? : RHEA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.