This crossword No. 23412 clues and answers were published on Sat 26 Mar 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23412 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – This car’s just pressure in a new form : JESUSCHRISTSUPERSTAR
12-across – Moslem’s local American reverse : SUNNI
13-across – See 9 : EXPRESS
14-across – Setter’s a friend in maybe 12 office : IMAMATE
15-across – What do you want for Christmas : PREZZIE
16-across – Two points each, one short of wanting to drink the lot : THIRTYALL
17-across – Not 44 to deface : MAR
18-across – Singlestick operator supports logophile : BACKSWORDMAN
20-across – Spies a loo : AGENTS
24-across – Aged relative of Katharina until tamed : NAUNT
25-across – Airborne seeds, first changed, end with dispersal : WHISTLE
27-across – Perform better than gold in the open : OUTDOOR
28-across – Cure, say, of 32, say : HEEL
29-across – Lies low, and did so in later writing I can put unto Latin : PLAYSPOSSUM
31-across – See 25 : DOWN
33-across – Don’t interfere in readiness : STANDBY
35-across – Father embraced by flower girl : DESIREE
36-across – Losing head is pure lack of patience : HASTE
37-across – Average sort of go-between : MEDIUM
38-across – See 1 down : TECHNICOLOUR
42-across – Code of practice begins after the last one : ZIP
44-across – Communist achievement postponing fools’ day? : LONGMARCH
46-across – Headless flower is trouble to back : LUMBAGO
48-across – 24 turns to a king – sledgers beware! : NUNATAK
49-across – Time lost by Italian city firm taking water from Venezuela : ORINOCO
50-across – Turn up another card trick : TWIST
51-across – Gunn, who has written poems about a lot of big beasts many times, has expectation about English painters : THEPHANTOMOFTHEOPERA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sweetheart’s letter writing a greeting to Samuel with a verve: Sherlock : JOSEPH
2-down – At the end of the day a singular French game’s very difficult, as they say : SUNSETBOULEVARD
3-down – Dog exactly like the last : SPITZ
4-down – Some big beasts swallowed by fish with no colour : HUELESS
5-down – Sticker left off, take a pew during solver’s return with 36 : IMPETUOSITY
6-down – See 25 across : THEWIND
7-down – Still hungry? Attain and use organisation : UNSATIATE
8-down – She rises in 21 : EVITA
9-down – Nameless bird with the odd numbered papers : STARLIGHT
10-down – Having wings – a thousand on the clock : ALARM
11-down – Odd man out here, being potty – barking? : JERRYSPRINGER
19-down – Universities now : CATS
21-down – Right wing today gives veterans no voice : NEOCONSERVATIVE
22-down – See 1 : ANDHISAMAZING
23-down – How big is the book? : VOLUME
25-down – Reportedly on good terms with urban horticulturalists? : WELWYN
26-down – Exponent of spin as curate in play : TOPAS
30-down – Errant aristocrat called immediately : STRAIGHTOFF
32-down – Go away from London district with change of heart : SHOO
34-down – Score of 40 to make historic garment work : DOUBLETOP
35-down – See 1 : DREAMCOAT
39-down – In channel island love signifies great courage : HEROISM
40-down – A fly-by-night or two – or two thousand with holiday arranged : OWLMOTH
41-down – Shakespearean part : PORTIA
43-down – Did Pecksniff employ him to steal? : PINCH
45-down – Mobile number partly in Greek I assume : NOKIA
47-down – Monsieur the Archduke’s statement of intent? : MOTTO
This crossword has in total 54 where 27 are across and 27 are down.