This crossword No. 26830 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Mar 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26830 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Fanciful art of sheepdog training is mine? : COLLIERY
9-across – Trick after a backflip nailed by European dog : POODLE
10-across – Meals for a dog : CHOW
11-across – Extraordinary stature, I am in shock : TRAUMATISE
12-across – Cat, a killer losing tail in conflict : JAGUAR
14-across – Opera in a borstal extremely unusual : ABNORMAL
15-across – A junior officer in green, unsurpassed : ALLTIME
17-across – Dutch painter capturing cat in a neat way : LEGIBLY
20-across – Fine wine, relative filth finally coming first : GRANDCRU
22-across – Something felt to protect female suffering loss : BEREFT
23-across – Girl running round borders in garden to catch some balls, runs the wrong way : MISGOVERNS
24-across – Large cutting tool’s shaft : AXLE
25-across – Eat a lot — good taste! : PIGOUT
26-across – Poisonous compound not designed to impress one in particular : NICOTINE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Entering shopping centre, both bananas put aside for later use : MOTHBALL
2-down – Run when philanderer turns up : FLOW
3-down – Dog in the evening sun, perhaps? : SETTER
4-down – Case of puppy, 3, as the best thing with the cat? : PYJAMAS
5-down – See 24 : SPUMANTE
6-down – Old singer saves half of soup for dog : FOXTERRIER
7-down – State, I’m sorry to say, kicked around for starters : ALASKA
13-down – Top dog unsurprisingly stealing spectacles, misbehaving : UPTONOGOOD
16-down – Cat literarily a degree above hole : MACAVITY
18-down – Cat drops on cat as a means of survival : LIFELINE
19-down – Dog hugging Rover, totally gutted in sounding like a cat : PURRING
21-down – Fruit is eaten by cats and dogs, perhaps? : RAISIN
22-down – Keeping dry, fragment split in half : BISECT
24-down – Cat partial to nastiest sort of drink : ASTI
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.