This crossword No. 23062 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23062 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Copper with 9 5 for the roads in Rome : LESTRADE
5-across – See 9 : HOLMES
9-across – Bombshell about fairy king breaks around setter and solver : SHERLOCK
10-across – Mug finds drug in 23 : BEAKER
12-across – See 22 : ADLER
13-across – Without time to choose I have been working : OPERATIVE
14-across – Desired contents of Keats’s 10 turned to mush post bellum : THEWARMSOUTH
18-across – Windjammer right up to chief blower : TRUMPETMAJOR
21-across – Port with towers has business round in fashion : TREBIZOND
23-across – Specially nice cakes, say, for 9 5’s place : BAKER
24-across – Breeding ground with bottle? : HOTBED
25-across – Polls with aesthetic tastes opposed to 9 5 : MORIARTY
26-across – See 23 : STREET
27-across – The Norfolk Pimpernel, poet and soldier : BLAKENEY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sailor from the East left a hurtful mark : LASCAR
2-down – Tinker eating honey going up one’s nose? : SMELLY
3-down – Potential Poet Laureate hurries to get top job : RULERSHIP
4-down – 9 5’s friend to cowards, not converts : DOCTORWATSON
6-down – Times up at last : OMEGA
7-down – Romance – be friends again! : MAKEITUP
8-down – Like an owl finding loose bits of rock at centre of churchyards : SCREECHY
11-down – Fellow takes to painting plus music with great enthusiasm : HEARTANDSOUL
15-down – Wintry reflection by owl: NB sadly in decline : SNOWBLINK
16-down – Good fellow craves effect of good joke? : STITCHES
17-down – Old magistrate goes south, intersecting equator : QUAESTOR
19-down – Hide concealing game with piste : SKIRUN
20-down – Sounding like the sacred ambition, possibly, in somewhat colourless style : GREYLY
22-down – Wrath at hand, in which we get led astray by 9 5?’s The Woman : IRENE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.