The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25897 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 25897 clues and answers were published on Sat 16 Mar 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25897 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossImmediacy of presents : THEHEREANDNOW
10-acrossWearing electronic tag, BBC boss’s mate arriving here soon? : ENDGAME
11-acrossOne-nil, wobbling, power through fully! : INPLENO
12-acrossWell-rounded objection backing Times : TUBBY
13-acrossSpecial cryptic crossword setters being granted the gift of healing : ASCLEPIUS
14-acrossWomen wanting just about anything by author : WAUGH
16-acrossRead all about technique America’s adopting — endless variety … Read all about it here! : KAMASUTRA
18-acrossABC or D Terminus? There’s confusion here : RUDIMENTS
19-acrossRubbish pile accommodates last of timber : DRECK
20-acrossWork out Hucknall’s band’s backing on old record I cover : EPIDERMIS
23-acrossTree with horse secured : ROWAN
24-acrossClear The Jam’s summer screening, though opening is missed : UNBLOCK
25-acrossRegressive delay introducing new vitamin : RETINOL
26-acrossA French Romantic’s treble casseroles with chorizo : HECTORBERLIOZ

All Down Clues and Answers:


2-down – Bigoted scoundrel great Indian spinner turns in : HIDEBOUND
3-down – Exciting the lady, going topless : HEADY
4-down – Had misgivings about a dance : RUEDA
5-down – Friends, maybe, trapped by rising water any way : ASITCOMES
6-down – Blue act newspapers got hold of : DEPRESSED
7-down – Needing to believe, see printed signs : OBELI
8-down – Having cut sideways through deep mud, sadly not a picture of health! : DEATHWARMEDUP
9-down – Square on the kisser the old girl’s caught sovereign, ___ ! : GOBSMACKINGLY
15-down – Resolve Allardyce Sacked headline? : HAMMEROUT
16-down – Warwick was keg man rolling in dry white wine and cassis : KINGMAKER
17-down – A little reading up of Hood, now Keats, a show of open-handedness and high kicks? : TAEKWONDO
21-down – As the Chelsea manager might say before/after sacking, Lampard principally out to inspire : IMBUE
22-down – Man with knife amputating leg well up : SURGE
23-down – Honey-eater subsequ­ently crossing wings : RATEL

This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.

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