This crossword No. 23580 clues and answers were published on Sat 08 Oct 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23580 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Repeat customary practice, injecting drug : REITERATE
10-across – In Badagara, I take a dip in India : RAITA
11-across – In which one may be driven to drink : SIDECAR
12-across – Economy independent of government knackers ‘arry : PRIVATE
13-across – Unbroken defect’s sound : WHOLE
14-across – Blinking time, hour of midnight : TWITCHING
16-across – Undertake precise manoeuvre and make old tender thing feel sexy? : TURNONASIXPENCE
19-across – Further adjusting compound interest, grand goes on : RESETTING
21-across – Stick to working title : BARON
22-across – Mild, with no 1 : PACIFIC
23-across – Where suspects held without trial, bear it in mind : BRITAIN
24-across – Still raging in river : PHOTO
25-across – Ball-to-boot serenade? : IGETAKICK
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – As a pond thaws out, entering empty river : FRESHWATER
2-down – In conversation, witty person overcomes tiresome one, the beast : WILDBOAR
3-down – Delivery of orders at regular intervals, prompt : RESCUE
4-down – Valid target in hoopla, perhaps? : FAIR
5-down – Hopeless couple parting signed off : DESPAIRING
6-down – Sweet thing in well gripping game, a hundred ahead : FRUITCUP
7-down – African capital where monarch renounces name Muhammad : KIGALI
8-down – See 4 : GAME
14-down – Semisweet item is cut with one bite taken out : TEABISCUIT
15-down – Author holds US state up not as a harmless native of America : GREENSNAKE
17-down – See 25 : OUTOFYOU
18-down – Totally blissful condition’s ending in vicar getting drunk : NIRVANIC
20-down – See 12 : SECTOR
21-down – Marriage’s restraint, it’s said : BRIDAL
22-down – Poet sees another holding his head : POPE
23-down – Bleat that’s not from sheep? : BEEF
This crossword has in total 29 where 13 are across and 16 are down.