This crossword No. 26980 clues and answers were published on Sat 03 Sep 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26980 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Fighting with knights’ page, as bad dream fades at last : PASDARMES
6-across – See 9 : CONS
8-across – Fish beat up a lobster : BLOATERS
9-across – Cold salmon prepared at home: commonplace now : ALLMOD
10-across – Excitement from the person that announced defrosted fish : HOOPLA
11-across – First mate’s boat in legend was used to get wife : ADAMSRIB
12-across – Some fish in need of bigger boats? : SHARKS
15-across – Vision of Boatman: a plot, they say : EYESIGHT
16-across – An apostle in Rome alone, cut by a spear, even : SAOPAOLO
19-across – Smell fish on seafront : STENCH
21-across – Sporting fish roe from theoretical hybrid : ATHLETIC
22-across – Bigger fish eaten by little fish with no resistance : FREELY
24-across – Raw cod, flounders and yellow fish : COWARD
25-across – Fish definitely returning to land in the Irish Sea : ANGLESEY
26-across – Report to reveal one may be in the soup : LEEK
27-across – Fishy substitute for universal part of theories of Flora, Fauna etc : GODDESSES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Proclaim on eradicating even this disorder : POLIO
2-down – Fish for small kipper? : SNAPPER
3-down – Team loses a point, falling short at Wembley, perhaps : ARENA
4-down – The fish that got away, you say? It’s a mix-up : MISTAKE
5-down – Boatman & crew: visionaries covering a great distance : SEAFARERS
6-down – More than one heavyweight is alone, pulled up after initial concussion : COLOSSI
7-down – Part of old civilisation moving into Chile : NEOLITHIC
13-down – Very sad indication for our planet : HEARTSORE
14-down – Head of state crazy to execute guerrilla leader, one of 101? : SPOTTYDOG
17-down – Fish shortage following cutback : POLLACK
18-down – Goldfish with starter of dory and crab perhaps found here : ORCHARD
20-down – Teams rely : ELEVENS
22-down – Japanese fish: ultimate in sole music : FUGUE
23-down – Looks suggestively at au pair’s bottom in the grounds : LEERS
This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.