This crossword No. 23819 clues and answers were published on Sat 15 Jul 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23819 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Songs about academic retiring from the council : SYNODAL
5-across – Nazi embracing 2 with warmth : HOTNESS
9-across – Loutish altercation disheartened dandy : ROWDY
10-across – Book about a Teletubby, one with a musical instrument : BALALAIKA
11-across – Legendary thief’s incomplete course covering corrosion : PROCRUSTES
12-across – Scratch wild calling, say? : CARD
14-across – Almighty gasp and 6er catches cold : PANTOCRATOR
18-across – She takes care of reporters swallowing nonsense about investigator : PROTECTRESS
21-across – Novel sequence of Returning Officers : SAGA
22-across – 1 down said to get wasted by waster : DISSIPATER
25-across – See 8 : DEVIATION
26-across – Similative drunk in a casino composed Genius : ISAAC
27-across – Killer trapping 2 in hold : CONTAIN
28-across – Pardon encompassing 2’s thingamajig : WHATNOT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Mark of punishment or promotion : STRIPE
2-down – See 26 : NEWTON
3-down – Passing visitor upset tray in The Plough : DAYTRIPPER
4-down – Behold Elizabeth’s truncated subdivisions! : LOBES
5-down – Lily takes fourth rider’s train from York to Spain : HELLEBORE
6-down – Stimulant keeping student up for lecture : TALK
7-down – 21 cut short by unpleasant tendency to curve downward : EPINASTY
8-down – It measures dispersion of varied data in dots : STANDARD
13-down – Fly flag, bearing south before hailstorm : DROSOPHILA
15-down – Sister catches musicians devouring one sort of square meal, perhaps : NUTRITION
16-down – Bugger! Compiler interrupts 21 in fits : EPISODIC
17-down – Redeemed 4 in fake 2 : FORGIVEN
19-down – Purify the race : STRAIN
20-down – Knitwear for Icelandic extremists breaking revolutionary’s heart : TRICOT
23-down – Cyst is elevated to power : SINEW
24-down – Priest beheaded beast : LAMA
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.