This crossword No. 23849 clues and answers were published on Sat 19 Aug 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23849 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – School mark approving funny business : SCHTICK
5-across – Bismarck ruled this land of blue and Prince this land once red : PRUSSIA
9-across – Momentous thing, heart rate’s disturbed : EARTHSHATTERING
10-across – Aviation route switched in flight : STAIR
11-across – Indifferent to conversion of Caledonia : LAODICEAN
12-across – Trawlerman with a PC full of contacts? : NETWORKER
14-across – Sri Lankan maiden trapped by shadow : TAMIL
15-across – Lonely Lakeland water-bearer : CLOUD
16-across – High point of some 9 recipe with ten ingredients : EPICENTRE
18-across – Liquidates a joint society : AMORTISES
21-across – Total bill for one from the arboretum : SUMAC
22-across – Endue child of all creation with The Catcher in the Rye : HOLDENCAULFIELD
23-across – Immaturity of redhead? : RAWNESS
24-across – What Bacchus waved in years hence? Switch! : THYRSUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – As Phaedra’s Hippolytus crushes underfoot : STEPSON
2-down – Great exemplar with all to do: watch for failing : HARDACTTOFOLLOW
3-down – One taking Hood’s place as playwright : ISHERWOOD
4-down – Knight, a prince of the Jewish community : KAHAL
5-down – Smells coming from this river, right? Our tip erupted : POTPOURRI
6-down – One true offspring: some mothers do ‘ave ’em! : UTERI
7-down – Long John Silver’s expression in his aspen grove? : SHIVERMYTIMBERS
8-down – Like the pain from Algerian gin almost : ANGINAL
13-down – In which calves take cover : KNEESOCKS
14-down – Bloodsucker in knitted twin-set? Run! : TSETSEFLY
15-down – Pain in the heart nearly finished tutor : COACHER
17-down – What an enigmatist does, getting up to perform during scene change : ENCODES
19-down – Substance of article on the setter : THEME
20-down – Burst of speed put on by jet : SPURT
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.