This crossword No. 23346 clues and answers were published on Sat 08 Jan 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23346 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
5-across – Death scene, extremely pleasant – rail off : VENICE
6-across – In league with a pupil, was a romancer : ALLIED
9-across – Home Guard pursuing wood and stone : ASHLAR
10-across – Time after crazy nut with 5 down’s garment I would remove : NATURIST
11-across – Defensive measure ensuring game finished level? : DRAW
12-across – Boswell’s first … with hero a prig? Hardly! : BIOGRAPHER
13-across – The right house to put in a family or similar group : BROTHERHOOD
18-across – Leader of group to price manual? : CHARGEHAND
21-across – Sea horse : MARE
22-across – Go up to the top of the house, say, with such change coming : CLIMATIC
23-across – Mother a gentlewoman? There’ll be trouble : MALADY
24-across – Hoist used in heist? : PETARD
25-across – Contemptuous expression uttered by Humpty : POUFFE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Blooming repeatedly further down : INFLOWER
2-down – Non-striker embracing one who paints a beetle : SCARAB
3-down – Religious reformer dropped her in dry 12 : PLUTARCH
4-down – See 16 : PIRRIP
5-down – gives the V and A a Hindu garment : VASARI
7-down – Cleaned, when all’s done? : DUSTED
8-down – Enthusiastic about cleaner work with inability to bear : INTOLERANCE
14-down – This is always happening to me: I’m my own 12 … : THESTORY
15-down – See 14 : OFMYLIFE
16-down – … I expected a lot: page to call speaker with up and down epitaphs : PHILIP
17-down – See 11 : BRIDGE
19-down – Far from meteor? : REMOTE
20-down – Mother and child in a jam? : DAMSON
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.