This crossword No. 23544 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 Aug 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23544 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – A horsy affair turning my monarch off : GHANA
4-across – S-south 27 country piece – stick around : SWAZILAND
9-across – Art in films providing one of the kind with a knighthood : MALIK
12-across – Central America, sweetheart? Not sure : ERITREA
13-across – What’s afoot with the books? : COOKING
14-across – Keep talking! : GABON
15-across – Loathe old English with article : UGANDA
16-across – … singly active, as you might say? : SPRY
17-across – Bird first going to fly : BOTSWANA
20-across – The North Wind a healer? : GALEN
22-across – Old time vessel for a politician : AMPHORA
23-across – Town in the West of Syria in romance : LARAMIE
26-across – He backed taking top off bone : NAMIBIA
28-across – Slip a sign into its homophone : SIERRALEONE
30-across – New campus in which I get by where staff appears repeatedly : MUSICPAPER
31-across – Most of a fabric contains most of 18 : MOZAMBIQUE
35-across – Chaos, a fruit of change : SOUTHAFRICA
38-across – A lot of old folk in false starts : NIGERIA
40-across – A following like that one in 9 across : SOMALIA
41-across – Communication with a sweet girl I left : AIRMAIL
43-across – Clumsy bird of 17 is put back in it : INEPT
44-across – Russian girl embracing a far country : TANZANIA
46-across – Boldly in future? : TOGO
47-across – Relation by marriage lost in island : MALAWI
51-across – Kind, not good : BENIN
52-across – Social worker, more than a bit of a nut, confronts queen : ALMONER
53-across – Alert, having pushed a reform : HEADSUP
54-across – Say you start gymnastics : EGYPT
55-across – HHH, perhaps: having caught 4 down, doctor cut back : EXTRAHARD
56-across – Musical start for poet and painter? : OPERA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Tips on a horse: they grow in Australia : GEEBUNGS
2-down – The soul of man : ANIMA
3-down – Relating to flight that upset many – do I care? : AERODYNAMIC
4-down – No hinds at the party? : STAG
5-down – One training to be a policeman gets to work on a drink : ALCOPOP
6-down – Boy at youth club starts on oven : IVORYCOAST
7-down – A short time : AMIN
8-down – Medal for love : DOGCOLLAR
9-down – Authoritative kings over central Australia : MAGISTRAL
10-down – It’s invariably half mixed : LIBYA
11-down – Return of mayor partly depends on him : KENYA
18-down – First choice last? Good? Let 31 decide : ZAMBIA
19-down – Sculptor keeping setter employed? : CAMEROON
21-down – Conscription means a break for Eric from gin and ginger : LANDSTURM
24-down – Ass keeps performing as tremor is overhead : MOONQUAKE
25-down – Number of French scholars with Poles exchanged : ELEVEN
27-down – A fellow holds above boy over water : AMERICAN
29-down – Say ‘Ha bloody ha’ when some explosive raised lives : TMESIS
32-down – Timeless dance at 27 city : ANGOLA
33-down – Short distance in covering garment as of need : BURKINAFASO
34-down – Obsession about Roundhead not going to extremes? : MAURITANIA
36-down – Bond is inadequate at 0.9266 kph : HALFAKNOT
37-down – Entreat key state to stir : FLAGITATE
39-down – English greeting put in hat first : ETHIOPIA
42-down – Almost all – almost all 38 : ALGERIA
44-down – Story about blackboard? : TABLE
45-down – Fool with tomb in play in play : NINNY
48-down – A man, for example, in church? : AISLE
49-down – Broadcast giving uplift to the enemy? : EMIT
50-down – Head over wall been punched? : CHAD
This crossword has in total 60 where 30 are across and 30 are down.