This crossword No. 25544 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Jan 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25544 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – God is filling a noted hole — thinking to the contrary? : ATHEISM
5-across – A date of despair for Poland, cold — and clean : ASEPTIC
10-across – One part of a shoe : SOLE
11-across – Spreading of flu ensures sorry feeling : RUEFULNESS
12-across – European city’s action, which may be 13 : WARSAW
13-across – O such a letter? : CIRCULAR
14-across – Bear round object that may be 13 : BREATHING
16-across – Penny spent training here, not the full shilling : POTTY
17-across – Form of fish, a perch : SHAPE
19-across – Not as much to say, as one 6? : LEICESTER
23-across – Certain disgraceful riots captured on film? : CASTIRON
24-across – See 27 : PARROT
26-across – Bouncer’s son fettered by bit of a writer wearing a tie : TENNISBALL
27-across – Sketch of 28, say? : DEAD
28-across – 17 unknown, cut back, almost disappeared : POLYGON
29-across – Young player getting old, clutching right thigh at kick-off? : STARLET
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Possible hand or paw, it could be? : TWOPAIR
3-down – Top card game, toss of a coin? : EVENS
4-down – Loosely scatter half of this oath : STREWTH
6-down – 17 behind the times? : SQUARE
7-down – Swinging crawler, not entirely supportive of Paul, regularly pinching bottom : PENDULOUS
8-down – Second engineer isn’t against taking foot off : INSTANT
9-down – Catholic among 19 converts in total forgetting biblical text relating to 1712 : TERCENTENNIAL
15-down – Desire topless lust after squeezing softly favourite uncle’s rear : APPETENCY
18-down – Man on board’s call for dismissal : HEAVEHO
20-down – Baldie holding nerve somersaulting, as assistant in the air : COPILOT
21-down – Summon from the grave the oldest woman to possess old Tom : EVOCATE
22-down – Island off Cornwall runs into what’s destroying the high street? : TRESCO
25-down – Tracker from the north or south? : RADAR
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.