This crossword No. 23101 clues and answers were published on Sat 27 Mar 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23101 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – See 10 : STRIKING
5-across – Activate footrest right away : STIRUP
9-across – See10 : DISTANCE
10-across – Approaching picket line? : WITHIN
12-across – Here operative comes together with French actor in business : WORKSTATION
15-across – Cry from Yard close by, seizing drug : NEIGH
17-across – Does this extend from the 5th to 15th centuries? : MIDDLEAGE
18-across – Chosen ones perhaps availed themselves of bus conductor : ELECTRODE
19-across – Dismiss, having kept the enemy back : DEMIT
20-across – With difficulty, a nurse gets him to swallow : HOUSEMARTIN
24-across – See 17 : SPREAD
25-across – On the evidence of her dietary preferences, she should be a regular broadcaster : FIGLOVER
26-across – Shaft’s 25 – and I’m walking on it! : SHANKS
27-across – Pairing’s tense, but comes out on top with it : TWINSHIP
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – The team sledger and rattler? : SIDEWINDER
2-down – Checked the others fell : RESTRAINED
3-down – Poet awoke at Shelley’s house : KEATS
4-down – Do up sacrifice where one’s accepted responsibility for drop in cover price : NOCLAIMBONUS
6-down – Three-point turn of obscenity, catching fish : TRIANGLED
7-down – Demon – that’s a surprise! – making an appearance in Rugby : RAHU
8-down – See 26 : PONY
11-down – Belief of those that freeze food in small packages, as Swift saw it : BIRDSEYEVIEW
13-down – Boy of 13’s left arm’s replaced in air raid at Virginia hospital : BARMITZVAH
14-down – Tightly-held Latvian acting without control : LETTINGRIP
16-down – Kind of car to develop second : HATCHBACK
21-down – Is this lion on the slope? Just about : ASLAN
22-down – Goddess is living in the second boat from Oxford : ISIS
23-down – A killer from Pomona, say, half-cut : ORCA
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.