This crossword No. 23574 clues and answers were published on Sat 01 Oct 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23574 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Regurgitated slime covers colt born to die : SUCCUMB
5-across – Ship sails into misfortune : FRIGATE
10-across – Going to be always last? : WILL
11-across – Look after cook after a coke : TAKECAREOF
12-across – 11 the 25 and the ____ 10 11 26 : SOUNDS
13-across – A Viking is a rider, as some would say : NORSEMAN
14-across – Early stage of development, say, reverting just so, to stop pain : ANALGESIC
16-across – Something to do with lips in rhyme for … : PURSE
17-across – … lines against the Irish : VERSE
19-across – One obsessed about endless copy after turn to knight in play : AGUECHEEK
23-across – Very bad fad ruled out : DREADFUL
24-across – Dispatch to err about top of pole for repair : RESORT
26-across – Unassisted writing among the fairies! : THEMSELVES
27-across – Top of pole badly opposed to 10 : NILL
28-across – Flavouring and keeping – I’m not blind! : ANISEED
29-across – Egg producer and marvellous queen nearly get on : FABERGE
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Mythical beast and bird up to replace love in marriage : UNICORN
3-down – Pass on and stop : COLON
4-down – Painter’s friend is second to enter : MATISSE
6-down – Make a note of the best so far : RECORD
7-down – Prickly growth of society beset by old electoral opponents : GORSEBUSH
8-down – John Prescott got Jaws discredited : TWOJAGS
9-down – Flaying monarch outside pub, feel eager expectation at going round : SKINNINGALIVE
15-down – Girl keeping a chum to Mum in island capital : LASPALMAS
18-down – Deserve to hold article of clay : EARTHEN
20-down – Universal sea air helps to put continents together : EURASIA
21-down – Sound barrier broken by quiet listeners : EARPLUG
22-down – Feeble notes at celebration : EFFETE
25-down – See 12 : SENSE
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.