This crossword No. 25826 clues and answers were published on Sat 22 Dec 2012 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25826 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Thrower thrown into former heaven : OTHERWORLD
6-across – Indefinite number repeated — about £1000 — for amateur sport centre : TWICKENHAM
13-across – Motorist’s message with flower : CARDRIVER
14-across – Sunday opening with French pontiff and cardinal smoothed over : SANDPAPERED
15-across – Make a face and be sick — over here best? : LEERAIL
16-across – Unoriginal opening to short story : STALE
17-across – Sadly I 38 with 35 Sicilian raised as 27 : PERDITA
18-across – Beast : OXUS
19-across – Girl keeping grannie in Malaysia : PENANG
20-across – Kept being precipitated, holding space traveller : RETAINED
23-across – I’m sure there were plots to be formed to cover up stealing the gold : CONSPIRACYTHEORIST
29-across – See 38 : PADDINGTON
30-across – Cocktail mixer like this during another day : WHISKYSODA
31-across – Direction of the 7 16 with one extra variant, including nearly clean baby dressed in leather : EXITPURSUEDBYABEAR
35-across – Nothing for one in preliminary selection — haven’t had it for ages! : LONGLOST
38-across – 31: leave London for the West Country : DEPART
40-across – Member without water supply due? Well I’m blowed! : LIMB
43-across – Cat for newspaper girl, a cheap toy : RAGDOLL
44-across – Just arrived in store — hopeless situation : NOWIN
45-across – Retiring for good, pupil leaves English school for African capital : YAOUNDE
46-across – Blitz ending, the wise talked about witticism on one visit in relation to infectious disease : ZYMOTICALLY
47-across – Most science fiction with coarse, slightly twisted cover is given a terrible time : CRUCIFIED
48-across – Greek play, sly one, exposed layers of feminism : LYSISTRATA
49-across – Indulgence in unsuitable liquor — note, it didn’t shorten his life! : METHUSELAH
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Colossi left floundering manage with electronic test instrument : OSCILLOSCOPE
2-down – Columbine’s setting with 60% of aquilegias — harden off : HARLEQUINADE
3-down – Study again before entering the cooler : REREAD
4-down – Pioneer in the air or 6.50 Grade correct : ORVILLEWRIGHT
5-down – Novel heroine goes topless in Greek city : LARISSA
7-down – When beginning to bury time? : WINTER
8-down – Competent to have return of one penny rather than pound fully covered : CAPAPIE
9-down – Sovereign dropping sovereign : EMPORIA
10-down – Queen of 7 16, being solitary, didn’t finish one : HERMIONE
11-down – Heart of the country cares about dead American city : MIDLANDS
12-down – Householder is French, carrying load : ESCARGOT
21-down – Quizmaster doctoring around hospital unknown : SPHINX
22-down – One with the skill to break the ice : TECHIE
24-down – Reptile taking first persons’ flower : CROCUS
25-down – Disapproval shown to ex-president should bear fruit : RASPBERRYBUSH
26-down – Cross between husky and Labrador in space? : SKYLAB
27-down – Opera of the second class, hardly original, going over the edge : BOHEMIANGIRL
28-down – Very little space for food — I thrash wildly about : HAIRSBREADTH
32-down – Rules about fish in byroads? : SIDEWAYS
33-down – Match for 17 flourished at last in the window : FLORIZEL
34-down – Almost loveless marriage within tribe — directions for closing stages : ENDGAMES
36-down – Put Christmas back for 10’s man : LEONTES
37-down – Sun on tree should cheer one up : SOLACER
39-down – God takes suffering with style : PANACHE
41-down – Low-down ornament showing insect eating up deer : ANKLET
42-down – Jug fully given to prejudice : TOBIAS
This crossword has in total 50 where 24 are across and 26 are down.