This crossword No. 23047 clues and answers were published on Sat 24 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23047 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – How to avoid paying for a platypus? : DUCKBILL
9-across – The full measure of Australia : OUNCE
10-across – Kangaroo, say, poetically heard in passage : ISLE
11-across – The Voice of the Highlanders? : SUTHERLAND
12-across – Brit takes headless cat back in to tree-dweller : POSSUM
14-across – Mats laid out in bundles for dancing? : MATILDAS
16-across – Snap up a mixture of northerly 13 : PAPUANS
18-across – Making fast, low sound : MOORING
21-across – Can an airline go wrong internally and make capital? : CANBERRA
23-across – Chunder-making! Quote me! Send it back! : EMETIC
24-across – Did you redecorate : DIDGERIDOO
26-across – Magda you’ll find inside, morning and afternoon, I’d say : GDAY
27-across – Wolf down chow mein with no starter; William drops out : HOEIN
28-across – Ken who served well, or as badly : ROSEWALL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sad Aussie detailed to bury digger’s tool inside mountain : SUISYOLA
2-down – Mislaid keys of the cooler : YKSE
3-down – Dr Seuss heartless to, that is, a whiner : EISSOM
4-down – Broken Hill team misses opening: what a record! : ALLTIME
5-down – Man at bay : COVE
6-down – Film star Harris takes out Wilde’s topless Mrs : NNYLFLORRE
7-down – Odds of a French team being seen in Northern Territory’s land : MEHNRA
13-down – Soap he rubs on, GI-style : SRUOBHGIEN
15-down – Cry heard by 28 when not in court? : TUO
17-down – One that 20 made scores of : NUR
19-down – Nationality of a citizen from Western Australia : NAINABLA
20-down – Don underwear? Damn ridiculous! : NAMDARB
22-down – Be quiet and lie back with a bird! : ALIEHS
23-down – Where Cook put a horse to work : EROHSA
25-down – Australian sailors and I find a princess : RANI
26-down – Has Wagga the heart for such a man? : GAWS
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.