This crossword No. 23655 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Jan 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23655 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Boatman, say, rejected post : JUNKMAIL
9-across – Bird understood to be circling five hundred singers of Jerusalem : GODWIT
10-across – Sell out, as it might? : SHOP
11-across – Ship opening line : ICEBREAKER
12-across – Hemingway’s last words blown to bits, losing consciousness : DROWSY
14-across – Dance musical needing no introduction : RIGADOON
15-across – Worth keeping party in mind : CALIBRE
17-across – Perhaps, if user intended to maintain earliest of relationships, he could search here? : FRIENDS
20-across – Easy job to get hold of outside home : SINECURE
22-across – In Germany, a wrong turning reaches destination to its north : NORWAY
23-across – Arabs cutting arm, playing around : WOMANISING
24-across – They’re close, close to getting top man : KING
25-across – Sea where river cuts through state : MARINE
26-across – Cavalier in solitary, tortured : ROYALIST
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Ecstasy on drugs : EUPHORIA
2-down – Throw rubbish in it, or miss : SKIP
3-down – Hole where rodent has it buried : CAVITY
4-down – A pin in both directions round noted direction : ALLEGRO
5-down – Twice scale up culture medium : AGARAGAR
6-down – 24 acrosses of verse? : EDWARDLEAR
7-down – Dramatist’s devout emperor : PINERO
13-down – Bad image in witch transformed – with this? : WHITEMAGIC
16-down – See 17 : REUNITED
18-down – Identify cube divided by a number not written down : DIAGNOSE
19-down – It’s plain, anything but 13 involved – with this? : DEVILRY
21-down – I fly around British feature on map : ISOBAR
22-down – Asian city raising an artist : NAGOYA
24-down – Line in clothes – for a Scotsman : KILT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.