This crossword No. 25502 clues and answers were published on Sat 10 Dec 2011 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25502 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Catcher accepts unfinished poem: don’t talk to the messenger : TELEGRAPHIST
8-across – Little boy sees good solver’s much extended : LENGTHY
9-across – Popular protest leads to convulsion : DEMOTIC
11-across – She doesn’t say what there is : THERESA
12-across – Pet for boy from Barcelona : CATALAN
13-across – Fish has left woodwork at gate : ENTRY
14-across – Get in line, say, for game across the Thames : KEWBRIDGE
16-across – Go to a museum, perhaps, even if it’s free? : PAYAVISIT
19-across – Little one left in tower : BABEL
21-across – Slough disposal is after its first during reversion of Indian groom : ECDYSIS
23-across – Draw a model for area : ATTRACT
24-across – Philosopher abandoning both extremes for very noisy derivative : SPINOFF
25-across – Change round in the morning: phone company books men to deride innocent victim : ALAMBTO
26-across – See 25 : THESLAUGHTER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sunburn for man like the ground to a wheel? : TANGENT
2-down – Last year’s leaders keep carnivore on spec : LOTTERY
3-down – Fellow with divisions in road, reportedly — he gets burnt : GUYFAWKES
4-down – Submarine detector sounds like small boy : ASDIC
5-down – Beast gets hot on Dutch dam : HAMSTER
6-down – Brock’s home was first to be colonised : SETTLED
7-down – Kit’s here, stupid! The man’s a journalist : CLOTHESPRESS
10-down – Rule about little room at first needing scrubbing : CANCELLATION
15-down – Successfully? It’s not the end of the world : WITHABANG
17-down – Language of heart-throb after rise of homework : YIDDISH
18-down – Sticky 6 from Liverpool didn’t finish : VISCOUS
19-down – A few lines — got some between the teeth : BITPART
20-down – Three bachelors, real weird, that will talk too much : BLABBER
22-down – Capital seat accommodating setter : SOFIA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.