This crossword No. 25526 clues and answers were published on Sat 07 Jan 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25526 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Choose to keep quiet time in smoker’s assembly : PIPERACK
5-across – Sailor to accomplish his aim : TARGET
9-across – Programme of talent-spotting, being rubbish? : STRICTLY
10-across – See 9 : FORTHE
12-across – See 9 : BIRDS
13-across – Painters etc in suitable accommodation : APARTMENT
14-across – Celebratory explosive devices put in sack — barmy! : FIRECRACKERS
18-across – In the centre, order to repair a model of the statue that came to dinner : COMMENDATORE
21-across – Annoyed about combining styles? : CROSSOVER
23-across – Provide joke with point : EQUIP
24-across – Priest turned farceur sought by alchemist : ELIXIR
25-across – Person from Riga in unpleasant surroundings — is it Brussels? : VILLETTE
26-across – Strong possibility that you could start? : MIGHTY
27-across – Time Rugby Union’s Tiger played with genuine resolution : TRUEGRIT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Don’t go to the Pays Bas without a translator : PASSBY
2-down – Proper way to specify delegated correspondent : PERPRO
3-down – On holiday the setter’s been far from dominant : RECESSIVE
4-down – Bird is captured — where? — in Italy : COLLAREDDOVE
6-down – A place for such as 4 in the rigging : ALOFT
7-down – See 19 : GATHERER
8-down – Learned work on pacts needing little change : TREATISE
11-down – Barker puts pile of stones on land register : CAIRNTERRIER
15-down – American playwright about to receive into the Church of England a French one : CORNEILLE
16-down – Jewellery and stuff, including English food : ICECREAM
17-down – Dominant monkey to get large gin cocktail : IMPOSING
19-down – Watch American gun being used in Britain by king that’s no agriculturalist : HUNTER
20-down – Optimistic — don’t come in yet! : UPBEAT
22-down – Satirist, one of the 12 : SWIFT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.