This crossword No. 23015 clues and answers were published on Tue 16 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23015 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Seafood without rooster won’t be finished : COCKLES
5-across – Tube vehicle backed into one article and another : TRACHEA
9-across – A cinema movie’s not bloody enough : ANAEMIC
10-across – Check fly, perhaps, having caught end of zip : INSPECT
11-across – Criminal has to serve one’s time : DISHONEST
12-across – Dance with male during refrain : STOMP
13-across – Dance, its Latin origin central : SALSA
15-across – Yes I can, yet both sides dubious : CERTAINLY
17-across – Infer anger by prisoner? The military might : FIREPOWER
19-across – Dance with beat and vitality : TANGO
22-across – Dance in row : BRAWL
23-across – A letter P’s compound, potassium compound : SALTPETRE
25-across – Dance a Greek character passed round : LAMBADA
26-across – Well, just ask! : SOLICIT
27-across – 6 heading off returning for meal, almost full : REPLETE
28-across – Model also interrupting drink, don’t show for date : STANDUP
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Dance with hideous scar, down up : CSARDAS
2-down – Vilified child supporters accepting endless praise left after having words : CLAUSAL
3-down – Dance second, something stretched round : LIMBO
4-down – A higher lower? : SACREDCOW
5-down – Dance with Rick : TWIST
6-down – Brown Tony’s leader? Under the fool one’s second : ASSISTANT
7-down – Dance? They say we did with topless dress! : HOEDOWN
8-down – Check when one’s gone past you, having come to grief : AUTOPSY
14-down – Concerned with second opinion, awfully pale, keeping quiet, then dead : APPELLATE
16-down – Caught dodging racist slur about countrymen : RURALISTS
17-down – Nameless bone in substance virtually like another : FIBULAR
18-down – Having lost our way, might this be useful in Jerusalem? : ROADMAP
20-down – Spotted, though lacking decoration : NOTICED
21-down – Dance with love at home to record : ONESTEP
23-down – Dance with Arab, say : SHAKE
24-down – Dance with Dot : POLKA
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.