This crossword No. 25951 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 May 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 25951 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Moo from lower player in duet? : SECONDO
5-across – Playing harmoniously, wasting hours with this support : ALIMONY
10-across – Band’s 4 17s : RING
11-across – Two ways round tackling complex issues in evening wear : DRESSSUITS
12-across – Risk engaging nationalist composer : WAGNER
13-across – What’s down-at-heel Solti upset about? Not odd members of sextet : STILETTO
14-across – See 7 : PERPETUEL
16-across – Reportedly studies vibrators for 25 : REEDS
17-across – Some are possibly taken aback by 12’s work : OPERA
19-across – One very wealthy nearly packs 17 house of equal dimensions : ISOMETRIC
23-across – Lead in 12 17 and much else, including Tannhäuser overture : DUTCHMAN
24-across – 12’s Irish girl lives with former principal of ensemble : ISOLDE
26-across – It ends with huge outburst? Bless you : GESUNDHEIT
27-across – Test allegro finale with rallentando intro : ORAL
28-across – Harry Potter stripped etc for group : OCTETTE
29-across – Tenor is German — managed houses for 24’s lover : TRISTAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Music publisher fixed price in Dubai, say : EMIRATE
3-down – German in African port stops there : ORGAN
4-down – Encyclopaedist in Germany tried miserably to grasp 10 : DIDEROT
6-down – 18’s sextet, minus 9 : LESSIX
7-down – In piece by 18, Euterpe, volume and tempo vary, new for old : MOUVEMENT
8-down – Having scored, doze off touring gallery : NOTATED
9-down – Arrange tie-ins and mergers to produce 12 work : MEISTERSINGER
15-down – First note after Bach prelude removed, cut out? What a let-down : PARACHUTE
18-down – Lemmon finally appears in The Odd Couple as barman : POULENC
20-down – It’s more moving, hence state of audience’s eyes? : MOISTER
21-down – Supreme leader underpins popular state : INDIANA
22-down – Ringed in a cloud shrouding climax to Siegfried : AMIDST
25-down – They’re played by 10 blowers regularly : OBOES
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.