This crossword No. 23460 clues and answers were published on Sat 21 May 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23460 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Maim swindler’s accomplice, being hot stuff : SCOTCH
4-across – See 1 across : BONNET
9-across – Essential information needed against politician – emphatically! : VITALSTATISTICS
10-across – Location of Hollywood idol in need of new material? : CALICO
11-across – Ljungberg, say, has reason to get excited, rounding Manchester’s No 1 to get Arsenal’s fifth : NORSEMAN
12-across – See 23 : THEBAKER
14-across – All but in the clear over Batty Bernhardt’s detailed self-introduction : NEARAS
15-across – See 14 : DAMMIT
18-across – Panther’s what’s caught by man on time : BAGHEERA
21-across – A cosmetic joke : ONELINER
22-across – I can’t find my way, but motorway has left ahead, 14 15 : ALMOST
24-across – Feminine freedom fighter acquires rock in faraway country, the gossip : FLIBBERTIGIBBET
25-across – Scores in cricket competition, it’s clear : TWENTY
26-across – See 25 : TWENTY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Small hamper containing a vegetable : SPINACH
2-down – Animal king a debut for composer describes : OKAPI
3-down – Robe that reveals bird’s round buttocks : CASSOCK
5-down – It’s not very long after love letter : OMICRON
6-down – Books on Germany found in famous cathedral : NOTREDAME
7-down – A piece to play, zero volume, extending so long : TOCCATA
8-down – Standard, forbidding one : BANNER
13-down – Beadle introducing people competing on buzzer : BUMBLEBEE
16-down – Reduce to nothing extra-terrestrial ring : ANNULET
17-down – I won’t cross the line to give the fellow a beating : TANGENT
18-down – How things get repeated up amongst the Tory backbenchers : BYROTE
19-down – City is as good in luminous appearance : GLASGOW
20-down – Reddish-brown American band getting into line : RUSSETY
23-down – Horribly numb with heartbreak after the loss of a family man with Rolls : MRBUN
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.