This crossword No. 23149 clues and answers were published on Sat 22 May 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23149 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – 6 1dn’s image first during break : HOSPITAL
5-across – Infant rumoured to be a hole in the head : ANTRUM
9-across – Emergency partner for police coming into a little money : ACCIDENT
10-across – Riding hat not hard on Dame Thora : ATHIRD
11-across – Break in 1ac task ruined when people start to discuss work : TALKSHOP
12-across – Reverse of 12ac in heaven : ZODIAC
14-across – Top 1ac? If not, do an U-turn : FOUNDATION
18-across – 1ac’s local authority is prodigal: holding back is the 8 man : WARDSISTER
22-across – Prompter’s back cover of Elements : EUCLID
23-across – Part of 25 is one part of 18: when? : INUNDATE
24-across – Servant of one being married, say, : GRUMIO
25-across – Lots of lots during getaway exposed : FLOODLIT
26-across – Scrape the bottom of 1 in 100 generally : DREDGE
27-across – Principal in 14 of 6 1dn with note about the old Eastern front : NYEBEVAN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – See 6 : HEALTH
2-down – In poor 1dn when the King and I swap an island : SICKLY
3-down – Painfully treat 10 on the other side : IODISE
4-down – Hardly any use concealing what Santa says in Northamptonshire mansion : AYNHOHOUSE
6-down – Race to heal disease and halt corruption in the service : NATIONAL
7-down – Problem with 5? It is sequential to a cut flower : RHINITIS
8-down – Alberta hat for 1dn? : MEDICINE
13-down – How 1ac worker and friend could be marketed? : INTERNALLY
15-down – Ambivalent model stuck without love : TWOEDGED
16-down – Break time during renderings of brother priest : FRACTURE
17-down – 8 good for the ambitious? : ASPIRING
19-down – Some insect studies at B-Bury? : ENTOMB
20-down – Reactionary scientist starting reactionary book on gas? : PAVLOV
21-down – Dead ringer for Blake? : SEXTON
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.