This crossword No. 23077 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23077 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Smelly and acne, the best features : HIGHSPOTS
10-across – Tyrone town not good for a city on the Missouri : OMAHA
11-across – Loopy work, note, having lost one time : CROCHET
12-across – Advocate of conflict, losing head fighting, died – stiff : AWKWARD
13-across – Brain, but idle : LOAF
14-across – Liqueur to ruin a pair of trousers? Put back to front : MARASCHINO
16-across – Bird at speed must find concentration : TITRATE
17-across – Dickensian character about to secure victory is fretful : PEEVISH
19-across – Line across moon composed of iron matter : TERMINATOR
22-across – 25’s short dress : GARB
24-across – A horse and sheep, one as a shepherd? : ANAGRAM
25-across – See 3 : ACTRESS
26-across – Small hooter for Manilow, lethal injection? : OWLET
27-across – Trick on track, but not one to voice : CONTRALTO
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 21 : CHOCOLATETEAPOT
2-down – Topless Italian man with soldier in the dark : IGNORANT
3-down – May I hold your crozier while I perform? Unfortunately she abhors sophisticated taste : ASTHE
4-down – Grass dividing two and two eights? : BOATRACE
5-down – See 21 : USEASA
6-down – Spiralling alcoholic’s requirement, perhaps? : CORKSCREW
7-down – A West African country invaded by a West African country : MALAWI
8-down – See 3 : SAIDTOTHEBISHOP
15-down – Check accuracy of a measurer of bacterial infection : CALIBRATE
17-down – Obscure poet’s written about chief product of decay : PTOMAINE
18-down – Catholic Queen Lisa about to inter murder victim : ISABELLA
20-down – In actual fact I must protest! : REALLY
21-down – A cha cast out? Came out a hopeless disaster, hopeless : ASMUCH
23-down – Bringer of life spread from this name? : STORK
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.