This crossword No. 23448 clues and answers were published on Sat 07 May 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23448 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – From time to time he had vulgarly pursued the clue : THREAD
5-across – Uncommon facial adornment is bound to hurt : MUSTACHE
9-across – Alternative ways to deal with suspect lease : FREEHOLD
10-across – One deprived of chryselephantine fragments? : ORPHAN
11-across – Welsh consonantal sound : DOUBLELOCKED
13-across – See 22 : CHAT
14-across – Finished. Finished? Finished : OVERPAST
17-across – Horoscope for outstanding performers : STARCAST
18-across – This little piggy made a noise and got the chop : RUNT
20-across – Promotion of rain to cast gloom over pre-Wimbledon deliberations? : CLOUDSEEDING
23-across – Insidious effects of Kenya’s corruption : SNEAKY
24-across – Unfashionable Tory isn’t qualified : OUTRIGHT
25-across – Serpent with broken reeds is unjustly criticised : ASPERSED
26-across – They are going to the river with the ‘ounds : EXEUNT
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Keep on talking about instrument : HARP
3-down – Remote and obscure textual critic : EMENDATOR
4-down – Damned villain with parachute : DROGUE
5-down – Moderate form of hold, if moderated : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD
6-down – Has the queen a duty to be hard or cold? : SHOULDER
7-down – How pretty can jelly be? : ASPIC
8-down – Is snow : HEAVENSENT
12-down – Like snow on the railways or in the 5 down : WHITELINES
15-down – Before, display of amusement during physical education got one the bird : PEREGRINE
16-down – Sect with easy option in 5 down : CATSEYES
19-down – Classical man, most of the day, has quality : VIRTUE
21-down – Top composer on point of order : UKASE
22-down – What about an island for a bird? : WHIN
This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.