This crossword No. 23023 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23023 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Back of something backed or put between stones : HORSETAIL
10-across – See you with Kate at the front, socially acceptable : ADIEU
11-across – Trebly oxymoronic politician? : RIGHT
12-across – Holiday kiss quick, but risky : BREAKNECK
13-across – See 16 : SERVICE
14-across – Gone to hospital, one part to show : EXHIBIT
17-across – Legal term gathered by softest option : ESTOP
19-across – Doctor How, certainly no Which Doctor! : WHO
20-across – Girl making Irish boy flip : NADIA
21-across – The meal journalist’s skipped, so becoming? : THINNER
22-across – Girl wanting bloke to embrace mush, non-starter : MAUREEN
24-across – Second choice, another one : SELECTION
26-across – Chinese people in space, round about one : ASIAN
28-across – What’s bad under animal hair, good inside it : MANGE
29-across – See 11 : GENTLEMAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – God, Lord of the Flies’s William Ing? : THOR
2-down – National Park where end of park game half-hearted : KRUGER
3-down – Writer seemed to think should get extra money, getting pound : FELTTIPPEN
4-down – Shower of rain not popular, black colour of sky misses turn : RABBLE
5-down – One beside oneself when singer accepts backing of Richard : ALTEREGO
6-down – Boy might reportedly follow 8, then 25 26 : MARK
7-down – One with something doing in sore, wet bottom : RIVERBED
8-down – Shocking colour, one for you, the Mohican man : PUNK
13-down – Film alieness? : SHEET
15-down – See 11 : HONOURABLE
16-down – Transport’s oxymoron, improbably nice, arrives on time : TRAIN
18-down – Frivolous menage a trois? : TRIFLING
19-down – Line up pieces for mechanism : WORKINGS
22-down – 1,003 articles for some other time? : MANANA
23-down – Puzzle of trap by English leader spun 180 degrees by another : ENIGMA
24-down – Couple getting to grips with problem, love : SUMO
25-down – Eat cold chop : CHEW
27-down – … a third of which from 10 in 8 : NINE
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.