This crossword No. 23227 clues and answers were published on Sat 21 Aug 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23227 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Not what Charles raked in for tales of Charlie! : PEANUTS
5-across – Covering northern bit is West Brazilian river mammal : MANATEE
9-across – See 7 : SHOUT
10-across – The Observer’s role with respect to two blood groups in record : ONLOOKING
11-across – Gilbert’s awfully bitter in catalogue : LIBRETTIST
12-across – Machine gun from Essex, are we told? : STEN
14-across – Little child’s chicken, in terror from all quarters : PANTOTHENIC
18-across – Scientology, say, located in Oregon? I hear what’s going on within : AUSCULTATOR
21-across – It’s not fair – Richard Arkwright took this to heart : DARK
22-across – Large employment, but not real professions : LIPSERVICE
25-across – Noble Italian knight’s uncertainty, wearing enchanting ring : MAGNIFICO
26-across – Get staff in over cooking smell : NIDOR
27-across – A trainee medic does nothing, we hear, to get around English waterfall : CALDRON
28-across – This principle can demonstrate mineral has been taken in by people other than us : THEOREM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Man who kicked ball round street for pound : PESTLE
2-down – A second assassinated President’s shown up the lowest form of life : AMOEBA
3-down – Turn cross, hopes dashed in venture, ruined : UPTHESPOUT
4-down – See 19 : SCOUT
5-down – Sweeter beer types to break silence? Inconclusive : MILKSTOUT
6-down – Name one liquid, a light element? : NEON
7-down – Fool touring endures 45-minute song? : TWISTAND
8-down – Unnatural selection of odd cues about Biblical opening : EUGENICS
13-down – Not going far from hospital or unfamiliar limits : SHORTRANGE
15-down – 3 collecting it, sister’s swallowing food : NUTRITION
16-down – Affecting all the people – and yours truly, looking up in photo : PANDEMIC
17-down – Representation of star a young woman’s moulding : ASTRAGAL
19-down – German kids go looking for high English Peak : KINDER
20-down – Crossword compiler forbidding vertigo : MEGRIM
23-down – See 27 : SNOUT
24-down – More sanctimonious mole? : PIER
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.