This crossword No. 3046 clues and answers were published on Sun 06 Feb 2005 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3046 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Aspiring scout, some years ago – ferocious type confronting copper, British : WOLFCUB
5-across – Reportedly fed up with panel : BOARD
8-across – One may see one upriver always carrying line : ELVER
9-across – Loire surprisingly blocked by container ship : OILTANKER
11-across – Left us keeled over and adrift on the Red Sea : PORTSUDAN
12-across – Authoritarian writer of novels, abridged : STERN
13-across – Photograph mate in front of superb cinema : PICTUREPALACE
16-across – Like a spy’s role in a couple of tight spots? : HOLEANDCORNER
17-across – Magnificent old gold coin : NOBLE
19-across – One married woman’s no right to give cheek : IMPUDENCE
22-across – Making a mistake wearing the German pistol : DERRINGER
23-across – Shrub – gardener’s first rambling rose : GORSE
24-across – Information about a style of literature : GENRE
25-across – Roman statesman is led up, struggling : LEPIDUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Wife to lend a hand with puppy : WHELP
2-down – Gem found in organ by old friend : LIVEROPAL
3-down – Penny leaving Mediterranean island with American chap? : CYRUS
4-down – Horrific descent? Sport must involve bit of danger : BLOODCURDLING
5-down – Ship’s officer makes racket catching duck, one in Aussie river : BOATSWAIN
6-down – An animal’s taken over joint : ANKLE
7-down – Madden, getting one dreadfully enraged : DERANGE
10-down – NCO in car park cut colonel off : LANCECORPORAL
14-down – Truce, widespread over in Cuba, still? : CEASEFIRE
15-down – Novel plant : AARONSROD
16-down – Put up with scoundrel, shamefaced : HANGDOG
18-down – Rail against powerful businessman : BARON
20-down – Discover, after search, dog I’d raised : DIGUP
21-down – Fair, steeplechaser’s opening odds : EVENS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.