This crossword No. 25849 clues and answers were published on Sat 19 Jan 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25849 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Very warm keeping distance, almost very cold being instructive : HOMILETIC
6-across – I faint without love, in a manner of speaking : IDIOM
9-across – Exact number: is it held by Christian social worker? : DISTRICTVISITOR
10-across – Remove protection from 18 : PEEL
11-across – Fast girl first in Georgian city : ATALANTA
14-across – Dishonesty at the front applied to string : FIDDLEBOW
15-across – Lock showing tension with top removed : TRESS
16-across – Shakespearean character going round without error? About right : OSRIC
18-across – Article follows lives by top cat and top soldier, where house has keys : ISLEOFMAN
20-across – Quarters that can survive — that one wishes one had : ENVIABLE
21-across – Dessert cooked by tramp last month : PLUM
25-across – Having a strong local accent? More or less : BROADLYSPEAKING
26-across – Dormice are oddly more dehydrated : DRIER
27-across – Land of Hope formed aria — run it : RURITANIA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Brought before the bench, end of which said to make sense : HADUP
2-down – Err in interpreting lost letter from novelist of village life : MISREAD
3-down – Then are cats heard to soar in 14 down? : LARK
4-down – Food for friar : TUCK
5-down – Outlaw civil analyst in exchange for heating aid : CAVITYWALL
6-down – See 5 : INSULATION
7-down – Concentrated in Tennessee, so to speak : INTENSE
8-down – One of seven Taliban leaders imprisoned by Egyptian leader at Pole : MORTALSIN
12-down – Historical sitcom, possibly worse without something missing : BLACKADDER
13-down – Pray church leader with bible to give us another look : BBCIPLAYER
14-down – Bottom of river at border? : FLOWERBED
17-down – Meat wrapped by artist with most of 14 across, part 1 : RAVIOLI
19-down – Scottish island, one — nearly one — in part of window : MULLION
22-down – Volcanic stuff in periodical, most of it : MAGMA
23-down – See 3 : SPUR
24-down – See 21 : TART
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.