This crossword No. 25622 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Apr 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25622 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Endless alcohol added to the cold mixed drink : HOTCHOCOLATE
8-across – City managed to continue : RANGOON
9-across – Rose proves less than coherent speaker : RAMBLER
11-across – Get a grip on girl’s head in support of ritual murder : THUGGEE
12-across – Bitter : TRABANT
13-across – Invest last bit of revenue in cream : BESET
14-across – Tourist and prophet pursuing vision : SIGHTSEER
16-across – Home team in not entirely recent reshuffle : RESIDENCE
19-across – Bird is good in bed : PIPIT
21-across – About time to adopt compiler’s candidate : NOMINEE
23-across – One cretin floundering near the coast : NERITIC
24-across – Attempt to match bird no longer with us : EMULATE
25-across – Shed is en voyage in colour : IRIDISE
26-across – Interrogate and masticate, independently entering Devil’s Province : SASKATCHEWAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Type of degree obtained during working hours? On the contrary : HONOURS
2-down – Bright idea, albeit Diderot’s last : THOUGHT
3-down – Female’s male progeny welcoming death of Bellow’s hero : HENDERSON
4-down – He painted avian bearing right : COROT
5-down – Pan of meat and wine I dropped : LAMBAST
6-down – Farm work for the pre-senescent? : TILLAGE
7-down – It sticks out of rolled gold pipe stuck into strut : PROTUBERANCE
10-down – Cuter knitter producing something to get one thither and hither : RETURNTICKET
15-down – Novice hag wasting time where it’s monitored? : GREENWICH
17-down – A youngster, by degrees, raised drink : SAMBUCA
18-down – Country retreat given notice : DENMARK
19-down – Scope to wire up 5, ineptly : PURVIEW
20-down – Oracular snake dropping round for 1A? : PYTHIAN
22-down – Hard up? : ERECT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.