This crossword No. 23657 clues and answers were published on Sat 07 Jan 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23657 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Deceive the world by letter : DOORBELL
9-across – Son of 26 player : TOMTOM
10-across – An empty award : OBOE
11-across – Work to conceal about a hundred Romanian notes : OPHICLEIDE
12-across – Fraudulent transaction : FIDDLE
14-across – Elvis’ car crash : CLAVIERS
15-across – Game to the people of 23 : WHISTLE
17-across – Mary’s lost crew : CELESTE
20-across – At home amid blood : CLARINET
22-across – Spot the lady : ZITHER
23-across – Cor! : FRENCHHORN
24-across – Some talk of potato : TUBA
25-across – 12 : VIOLIN
26-across – Seed in sheets of glass : PANPIPES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – It’s stupid to hoot at mistake when your head’s in it : BOOBYISH
2-down – Out of prison without payment : FREE
3-down – Plead for a person to leave : BEGONE
4-down – Contrive to do chalk portrait of experienced journalist? : OLDHACK
5-down – The usual help said to be for defence in the West : STOCKADE
6-down – The setter’s where the tympanum is, providing an obstacle : IMPEDIMENT
7-down – International flower scene? : BORDER
13-down – Poor girl student has no time to grieve : DISGRUNTLE
16-down – More than four inches, as penned? : LONGHAND
18-down – I’m afraid I’ll break the circuit : TREMBLER
19-down – Uncooperative agent holds up the left : STROPPY
21-down – Was the poet a home bird? : LARKIN
22-down – Tales of a Buddhist seraglio? : ZENANA
24-down – Model and success could be identical : TWIN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.