This crossword No. 25610 clues and answers were published on Sat 14 Apr 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25610 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Dirty animal having to go off among vile waste : SEWERRAT
9-across – Incarnation putting a tax on skinned hare : AVATAR
10-across – Show off 24 across : CROW
11-across – Study of The Beast done with gloomy cryptic : DEMONOLOGY
12-across – Predatory mammal, paws taking in rivers : FERRET
14-across – Those tending mules, say — or 24 down? : COBBLERS
15-across – Caught by bat, hear this, fundamentally : ATHEART
17-across – Cat reserving books by Conservative elder statesman : CLINTON
20-across – Mongrel can live west of a European city : VALENCIA
22-across – 24 across — pig : GANNET
23-across – Product of a chicken may be blest with food, I suspect : SOFTBOILED
24-across – Creature’s time in cage : BIRD
25-across – Champion, popular horse : HEROIN
26-across – Live more like a savage fox : BEWILDER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Cow drinking last of lager set off for drinking event : BEERFEST
2-down – Comment from cat, or setter — something bit me? : MEOW
3-down – Swallow etc, 24 across less black, perhaps : CREDIT
4-down – Bear put cat in bag with tail of fish : STOMACH
5-down – Originally Hurt, obsessively tidy, screening writer’s part for The Elephant Man : HANNIBAL
6-down – Tell 9 bats about sailor getting material on board : TABLELINEN
7-down – Animal : BADGER
13-down – Members may seek this angling equipment — notice fishy on the end : REELECTION
16-down – Animals finding company in fruit, moving right to the surface : RACCOONS
18-down – Duck close to the sea, a limb short : ONEARMED
19-down – Animal, ass eating headless fish : WALLABY
21-down – Time to support one entertaining very old 24 across : AVOCET
22-down – Dog now barking, seeing drop : GODOWN
24-down – Animal’s hogwash : BULL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.