This crossword No. 23628 clues and answers were published on Sat 03 Dec 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23628 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Put off remit, having to squeeze pus out : SUSPEND
5-across – A little money causes discomfort for those on reservation : APACHES
9-across – President admits his country getting maltreatment : ABUSE
10-across – Stimulating drink, perhaps – favourite one absorbed by fermented pears : APPETISER
11-across – Eighth Earl Spencer was furious, being criticised : DISPARAGED
12-across – Drink from one side of vessel : PORT
14-across – Liquid food makes dog suffer bladder weakness, we hear : COCKALEEKIE
18-across – Drink brings tough old bird to God : BOILERMAKER
21-across – Trendy, the way of the month : INST
22-across – Little drink knocked back, then a drink, then beginning to drink a drink : PINACOLADA
25-across – No tailors confused by those with scissors : TONSORIAL
26-across – Drink ends in addiction – come along you alcoholics! : NEGUS
27-across – One may dangle each bishop in gravy at first : EARRING
28-across – Fruit from islands replacing meat with bread : BANANAS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Three characters needed to produce modest drink : SHANDY
2-down – Fruit drink : SQUASH
3-down – Beautiful thing, old solver caught in embrace of wayward teacher : EYECATCHER
4-down – Drink tops a performance : DRAMA
5-down – Viewer’s favourite to lift drink : APPLEJACK
6-down – Drink’s shown up in fruit salad : ASTI
7-down – West Sussex town shouldn’t get cold feet? : HASSOCKS
8-down – Agents turn up round Piccadilly establishment, demanding drink : SPRITZER
13-down – Approach menacingly with something hairy, wearing nobody else’s : BEARDOWNON
15-down – Turning round politician is a job for me : COMPILING
16-down – Stopping kind of mechanism in the drink : ABSINTHE
17-down – Drink Frenchman’s sauce up : PILSENER
19-down – Extent of error to ruin drink : MARGIN
20-down – Roman general rejects posh drink : CASSIS
23-down – Don’t prepare a day before party : ADLIB
24-down – Mouth one very dry place : GOBI
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.