This crossword No. 23490 clues and answers were published on Sat 25 Jun 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23490 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – German volume with article by Scots writer : BUCHAN
4-across – Defence against batterer – retreating trap : RAMPART
9-across – Back Prince grasps purpose with help : LENDAHAND
10-across – Flier defying logic with mirth : MICRO
11-across – Flier holding a name for a girl : JANET
12-across – Limits sticker for holy land : PALESTINE
13-across – Think how to bounce back? : REFLECT
15-across – Assembly due to accept the lovesick’s report : SOVIET
17-across – The leg-pulling church, down : KIDDER
19-across – See 17 : MINSTER
22-across – Learner has a go chasing a car – excessive sense of self-worth? : AUTOLATRY
24-across – Not squeaking under the influence? : OILED
26-across – Flier’s problem: its leader requested service : PRANG
27-across – Female magistrate rebelled without love, writing unruled lines : FREEVERSE
28-across – Jumper showing signs of exertion? : SWEATER
29-across – King painting Ben Hur’s father? : ARTHUR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – The real LBJ needed protective covering : BELLJAR
2-down – Standard that shall be : CANON
3-down – A temple largely by instinct given to anti-multiculturalism : APARTHEID
4-down – Holey things the oracle spoke in : RIDDLES
5-down – Complaint that is ma and pa’s initially : MUMPS
6-down – Deviser of the melting of the Arctic : ARCHITECT
7-down – Tool brought up from the Shuttleworth collection : TROWEL
8-down – A politician in a little trap for wasps? : JAMPOT
14-down – Best method of frater aid? : FAIRTRADE
16-down – Island city takes a turn in the front cover : VANCOUVER
18-down – Corruption providing the Queen with an invisible revolutionary : ROTIFER
19-down – A month on the border causing havoc : MAYHEM
20-down – Beast perused expensive reports : REDDEER
21-down – University river with Manx cat? : CAMPUS
23-down – See 10 : LIGHT
25-down – Left Christian grouping at hospital – no place to be left in! : LURCH
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.