This crossword No. 23675 clues and answers were published on Sat 28 Jan 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23675 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Passage that body needs to understand point to check in prison law : DIGESTIVETRACT
8-across – Associate that would be AWOL, say, during the morning : CRONY
9-across – Fork out to cover 51-day maintenance for buddy : PALIMONY
11-across – One drilling home run leads to start of celebration : INTROIT
12-across – Rider is poor when ordered to take 5 : PROVISO
13-across – Reptilian back is reasonably cold, say : GECKO
15-across – Firm date’s arranged quickly : STEADFAST
17-across – Do so by striking international? : TESTMATCH
20-across – Inspiring symbol to top off dam : TOTEM
21-across – Switch for sale? : ONOFFER
23-across – Twisting and turning in refusal is nonsense : TORSION
25-across – Force to have perverted love in church : VIOLENCE
26-across – Crawler’s not about to be put inside : INSET
27-across – End box : KNOCKONTHEHEAD
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Plunger is what’s chewed up by royal vice, perhaps? : DUCKINGSTOOL
2-down – Spirit of great many people : GHOST
3-down – Plastic to form, say, moulding : STYROFOAM
4-down – One raising tot without preferred incentive : IMPETUS
5-down – East getting upset about east’s shape : ELLIPSE
6-down – Are reportedly in communications from lover : ROMEO
7-down – Fiction and folly not one’s close friend : CONFIDANT
10-down – No admittance when badly polluted : CONTAMINATED
14-down – What’s usually done with princess finishes off warder : CUSTODIAN
16-down – Stole stuff of judges after old yob raised limit : DETERMINE
18-down – Tractor on tobacco fields somewhere in Canada : TORONTO
19-down – Unhappy as to the uncomfortable position : HOTSEAT
22-down – Caper lacks right kind of acid : FOLIC
24-down – Children take this in dispute : ISSUE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.