This crossword No. 23472 clues and answers were published on Sat 04 Jun 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23472 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Apron stage for this at a 1? : PINAFORE
9-across – Some Trollopean saga that hasn’t finished with her : AGATHA
10-across – Silence the band, Rod! He’s the Mikado’s top brass : SHOGUN
11-across – Swede, but a failure in 12 : RUTABAGA
12-across – Ravi’s a great artist with origins in his music : RAGA
13-across – Round of bread? 15 with 17! : CHEESEROLL
15-across – How do you treat a prize fish? With utter frustration! : STUFFIT
16-across – Albion’s treachery, according to French mind. Why speak of it? : PERFIDY
18-across – Church office handicaps old English, without a reformation : DEACONSHIP
19-across – Measure for Measure originally a novel : EMMA
20-across – Odds on favourite initially eating nothing; ‘e’d indulged : SPOONFED
22-across – Beaumont’s chaste whore haunts emporia, naturally, and some shipping … : ORIANA
23-across – … of which she, having written the news, left our order in the commissary : PROULX
24-across – Gilbert’s plaintiff has a leaning to disaster : ANGELINA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – A ___, Falstaff say, soundly dubbed and noted in the Marx canon : NIGHTATTHEOPERA
2-down – Bogart’s key opening Italian car with Roman child inside, one from the 6 in a 1 : LARGOALFACTOTUM
3-down – The train one hopes to catch between a 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8? : CONNECTION
4-down – Hides from this singer, say? : FERRIER
5-down – Heard opening movement : GAIT
6-down – A 1 production for several bible thumpers : BARBEROFSEVILLE
7-down – Bohemian’s warming words at a 1, icy in Cheam, in between two articles : CHEGELIDAMANINA
14-down – Left repose? Ugh! Could this be how the homeless rest? : SLEEPROUGH
17-down – Ibsen heroine in credit with The Mousetrap : CHEDDAR
21-down – Alluring, cunning and as friendly as George? : FOXY
This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.