This crossword No. 23071 clues and answers were published on Sat 21 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23071 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Over 1,500 ft game sleep on heather, being responsible for 6… : RUDYARD
5-across – See 1 : KIPLING
9-across – … Southern Blues being on top of one another : STORIES
10-across – Rose : TREMAIN
11-across – Sheep do what pigs don’t – 21 in the 6 9 : BUTTERFLY
12-across – Hibernian flag at kick-off : IRISH
13-across – Song that’s pathetic, the appalling swamping the good : DIRGE
15-across – Refuse to start row with former bond holder : EXCREMENT
17-across – Theatre audience has not much weight : LYTTELTON
19-across – Butler : YEATS
22-across – Award, I’m relieved to say, obtained by witchcraft : OBEAH
23-across – Roman emperor’s reported links with American city : CARACALLA
25-across – Chum in the early hours going AWOL, say : ACRONYM
26-across – Involved with entering a plan for a mast : MAINTOP
27-across – Old girl and mother lose out : DAMOSEL
28-across – The church was bold – so was Lebanon : CEDARED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Immaterial name to call up, it may be gathered : ROSEBUD
2-down – Ancient surveyor turned to pride : DIOPTER
3-down – Caliph’s Kalif initially – English is similar : ALIKE
4-down – Make unfriendly staff dice with management : DISAFFECT
5-down – Diminutive 6 9’s loner to whom everywhere was 3 in the pool : KITTY
6-down – Caesar’s head lies broken in quarry : PRECISELY
7-down – Single periodical without extremes? Fancy! : IMAGINE
8-down – Report composed of 0s? : GUNSHOT
14-down – Ship then called Nomad extended by crocodile in 6 9 : ELEPHANTS
16-down – Home among pottery suitable for 3-D : CINERAMIC
17-down – After a sign, chum spots receiver in 6 9 : LEOPARD
18-down – Proposition or direction divides them : THEOREM
20-down – Brilliant lot of coins in the shrine : ALLSTAR
21-down – Put foot down ready for post : STAMPED
23-down – In 6 9 he got his own back, arrived and left : CAMEL
24-down – See 14 : CHILD
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.