This crossword No. 23340 clues and answers were published on Sat 01 Jan 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23340 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – English girl collects grey marine plant : EELGRASS
9-across – Feasts a non-believer endlessly rejected? : AGAPAE
10-across – Stop loan : LEND
11-across – Look after good worker after greeting all around : HIGHANDLOW
12-across – Plane, Irish-American, carrying British : AIRBUS
14-across – Going around tug, observed a non-paying passenger : STOWAWAY
15-across – Partner without children sitting by river : SPOUSE
17-across – Small protest message against O’Shanter : BANTAM
20-across – One’s written in two forms of Edward – not changed by publisher : UNEDITED
22-across – Study country society : PERUSE
23-across – Period of isolation? Auntie ran off : QUARANTINE
24-across – It’s doubly hard jumping across a ditch : HAHA
25-across – Pieces of music? Ecstasy to person entertained no end : SEGUES
26-across – Mice destroyed by what sounds like blunt instrument : DULCIMER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Dissidents before joining irregular movements : HERETICS
2-down – Old pike or luce : AGED
3-down – One of the three for all the feeling that arouses pity : PATHOS
4-down – A run with a high-arcing ball going up on a curve : PARABOLA
5-down – Arrest mad, unruly boss employed by railway : YARDMASTER
6-down – A man who painted Japanese city : NAGOYA
8-down – Most wise and godly person over a long period of time : SAGEST
13-down – Rub old goo around, type of fluid for the body : BLOODGROUP
16-down – Worship of the Devil – a transgression shown up after the Last Day! : SATANISM
18-down – Wickedness is evident after Mass – that is undermining church : MISCHIEF
19-down – Bowler Hemmings : EDDIED
21-down – Feeling of disgust upset man – male denied employment : NAUSEA
22-down – Native American will be upstanding – just some revolutionary : PUEBLO
24-down – That man and I may expect to inherit : HEIR
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.