This crossword No. 23400 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Mar 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23400 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Crush a dignitary : PASHA
4-across – Mowlam on horseback – turncoat and rabble-rouser : MOBOCRAT
8-across – How plants grow flowers? Keeping warm, new doctoral research reveals : PHOTOSYNTHESIS
10-across – Fabric layer in poor health in church : CHENILLE
11-across – Coming out elliptical : GNOMIC
12-across – Keep maintaining peak condition and seize the reins : TAKEPOWER
15-across – Singer’s personal problem involving fool : BASSO
17-across – Remuneration Poles received for being anything but macho : PANSY
18-across – Terrorists I subsequently sent back come back : RETALIATE
19-across – Very bad habit, taking tabloid : TRAGIC
21-across – Drier item for sale aboard train : TEACLOTH
24-across – Sanctimonious author in Hamburg’s top hotel gets thrown out : HOLIERTHANTHOU
25-across – It’s true love! Given the stomach, I’ll do anything! : FACTOTUM
26-across – Take to Sky, receiving line from the Sun? : SOLAR
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Overworks animal – tame one burrowing into the Spanish mountain : POPOCATEPETL
2-down – Smutty stuff on the royal family’s fabulous afterbirth : SOOTERKIN
3-down – Ex-boxer catches Zeus’s lover dressing : AIOLI
4-down – Transport for emigrants is a potential bloomer : MAYFLOWER
5-down – Rugby team’s memory : BYTE
6-down – Woman torn apart by aristocrat’s disaster : CHERNOBYL
7-down – A truth universally acknowledged at 10.10 in the morning : AXIOM
9-down – Philosopher – to wit, Hungary’s first player taking gold after end of match : SCHOPENHAUER
13-down – A scientific figure – pity his science is flawed : PHYSICIST
14-down – May her swine’s flesh putrefy in Yorkshire! : ROTHERHAM
16-down – Cricket ground’s turned small boy into fan of central Europe : SLAVOPHIL
20-down – Eros reflected on a smell : AROMA
22-down – Dog food containers I opened : CANIS
23-down – Summons jester to entertain the king : WRIT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.