This crossword No. 29255 clues and answers were published on Sat 16 Dec 2023 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 29255 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Repeat of tea dance : CHACHACHA
10-across – State follows Conservative line, taking steps : CONGA
11-across – One’s driven by double-cross : SCREW
12-across – Showing extract, found a mage dancing with sound : UNDAMAGED
13-across – Dance: it’s located a couple in front of hotel : FOXTROT
14-across – As colour is applied, wiping a circle about the mouth : OSCULAR
17-across – Puzzled? Boatman might be : ATSEA
19-across – Tot cycling with guardian : DAD
20-across – Either way, one keeps house : MADAM
21-across – Ran out of funny Charleston costume : CLOTHES
22-across – It’s used by a keyboardist to select a partial inversion : CELESTA
24-across – Settings for plates of say fish, pork and beef but not sheep’s heart : PLACEMATS
26-across – Equalises score: taking on Latin, they cover the floor : TILES
28-across – Uncovered belly-button on return of American Smooth : SUAVE
29-across – Uniting against virus: hospital department : CONFLUENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Performs in musical with key lifted : ACTS
2-down – Table of maxima – their index, not their contents : MATRIX
3-down – It’s taken before dressing with mixed herb – so what? : SHOWERBATH
4-down – Secret order caught copper over limit, initially getting time : OCCULT
5-down – Rock ‘n’ Roll dad, housekeeper : LANDLORD
6-down – Ballas, Revel Horwood, Du Beke and Mabuse initially make a racket! : SCAM
7-down – Showed cold symptoms and, having displaced fever initially by force, got cosy : SNUGGLED
8-down – Clap kids with no limits set : LAID
13-down – Foreign capital in candid report : FRANC
15-down – Strictly Come Dancing, with first of personalities on telly : COMPLETELY
16-down – Spooner’s last to show sign of hesitation: Boatman lifted in dance : RUMBA
18-down – One hiding on board tug, one overwhelmed by wave : STOWAWAY
19-down – Separation is central to posture in Foxtrot, perhaps : DISTANCE
22-down – Claudia gutted over error: no risks taken here : CASINO
23-down – Argentine Tango: even parts of it can be read symbolically : SILVER
24-down – Plans hop-skip steps for dance : PASO
25-down – Some achieve Samba days before : EVES
27-down – Tess represented series : SETS
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.