This crossword No. 23586 clues and answers were published on Sat 15 Oct 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23586 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Be an undiscriminating audience at meeting place of 5s : CLAPHAM
5-across – Stock melody : STRAIN
9-across – WWC for 5s : WATERLOO
10-across – Gun tester unmasked with 5s : CANNON
12-across – What pupil says about teacher’s game with 5s : LONDONBRIDGE
15-across – Promoter of a duel invaded by the Inland Revenue? : VALUEADDED
17-across – Mother love took the chair : MAO
19-across – The myth of electrocution : ROC
20-across – Kept girl without acknowledgment among the Muses : MAINTAINED
22-across – Sound getting louder in disorder’s for 5s : CHARINGCROSS
26-across – Test alternative business : ORDEAL
27-across – Plum sponge with 5s : VICTORIA
28-across – See 10 : STREET
29-across – One out over or under the 23 : SLEEPER
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Say where people sail that 4 : COWS
2-down – Poet hasn’t died before : ANTE
3-down – Ran outside line and caused grief : HARROWED
4-down – Gave tongue in a temper, say : MOOED
6-down – Nature will provide for a lot of drinking : TEAURN
7-down – An agreement by a circle, a small one, on age? : ANNODOMINI
8-down – Ad hoc terminology among numbers strangely crowned : NONCEWORDS
11-down – Doctor’s a home bird : INTERN
13-down – In a bad case, a right to be grasping : AVARICIOUS
14-down – Rowan parts with shortage, getting strangely worse about it : BLACKADDER
16-down – Doctor Christie familiarly boring : DRAGGY
18-down – Record of social status put in : CASSETTE
21-down – Good-speed, Kidd! : PIRATE
23-down – Abuses much seen here : RAILS
24-down – A little fall : DROP
25-down – A quiet melody or two : PAIR
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.