This crossword No. 12489 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 May 2010 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 12489 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Be in control : CALL
3-across – See 1 : THESHOTS
9-across – Parody : LAMPOON
10-across – Computer device : MOUSE
11-across – Garment worn over the shoulders : STOLE
12-across – Distilled spirit : BRANDY
14-across – Simultaneously : ATTHESAMETIME
17-across – In itself : ASSUCH
19-across – Moral tale : FABLE
22-across – Projecting above a surface : PROUD
23-across – Spanish painter born 1541 in Crete : ELGRECO
24-across – Live within one’s income : MAKEENDS
25-across – See 24 : MEET
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Huge : COLOSSAL
2-down – Caribbean dance : LIMBO
4-down – Be in a precarious state : HANGBYATHREAD
5-down – Brazilian dance : SAMBA
6-down – Oedipus : OPUSDEI
7-down – Place : SKEW
8-down – Bluto’s rival : POPEYE
13-down – True poet : PETEROUT
15-down – Dense clump of grass — stuck so : TUSSOCK
16-down – Likeness of a person : EFFIGY
18-down – Excessive — unwarranted : UNDUE
20-down – Note with the time value of eight crotchets : BREVE
21-down – Electronic junk mail : SPAM
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.