This crossword No. 23649 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Dec 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23649 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Give a spa a bad name and elephants will enjoy it : MUDBATH
5-across – Talk food in 9 town : CHATHAM
9-across – Object of contemplation heard relating to a service : NAVAL
10-across – Practice established with time: it’s in a way to telegraph pole : TRADITION
11-across – See 25 : ANDTHELASH
12-across – Sign for staff of muscle formation : CLEF
14-across – Direction in Sussex town: home guards : WORSETHINGS
18-across – See 14 : HAPPENATSEA
21-across – Security letting craft through? : LOCK
22-across – Sticker went quickly into cold travel : ITINERANCY
25-across – Churchill’s view of 9 10, a possible clue to Moody’s health – sand blasting : RUMSODOMY
26-across – See 27 : CHASE
27-across – Male embracing girl in church owns Midland area : CANNOCK
28-across – A boy in the wrong beat the crusaders : SALADIN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – One who serves food outside Ulster : MENIAL
2-down – Separate entry into water to catch fish : DIVIDE
3-down – A vegetable heartless lot cut inside for seven whole days : ALLTHEWEEK
4-down – Accommodation on the danger line? : HOTEL
5-down – Will this society have no education? : CLASSLESS
6-down – A Y is one also : AXIS
7-down – Musical with a little bit to learn in a little break : HAIRLINE
8-down – Obvious person if he is translated : MANIFEST
13-down – Many in the entrances left for the stage : THEATRICAL
15-down – Spooner’s after the drift man, hence the crackling : ROASTPORK
16-down – Angry as some cricketers about opening : CHOLERIC
17-down – Second enclosure enclosing clock-climbers climbing, for example : SPECIMEN
19-down – Where nurses may be like Christian soldiers? : ONWARD
20-down – Monster to see shortly in Newry, possibly : WYVERN
23-down – The poet can’t decide : NOYES
24-down – The explorer is game : POLO
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.