This crossword No. 23843 clues and answers were published on Sat 12 Aug 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23843 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Compound of nitrogen with annoying effect? : RINGTONE
9-across – Island finding ways to communicate : RHODES
10-across – See 19 : CHAD
11-across – Right about answer on poetry getting across : TRANSVERSE
12-across – See 24 down : DINNER
14-across – Blimey, it’s virtuous : GOODNESS
15-across – Author who could balance a pint on her head while playing billiards, they say? : BEATRIX
17-across – Matches turn on flat set : STIFFEN
20-across – Sex symbol a little short getting through capital : MONROVIA
22-across – Independent leader into social equality : PARITY
23-across – Where priests found crime in book, perhaps : PARSONAGES
24-across – The Elephant Man experienced suffering : HURT
25-across – I start to nap in holiday home, though light : IGNITE
26-across – Turned out well about infertility treatment female dismissed, one giving birth : NATIVITY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Carping woman? : FISHWIFE
2-down – Archaic interjection, for example, since Jesus Christ! : EGAD
3-down – See 15 : POTTER
4-down – Paul left the Guardian almost totally in confusion : MELANGE
5-down – Radical protects political street fighter : PRESCOTT
6-down – See 24 : SOMEONEFOR
7-down – Yankees to cage as animals : BEASTS
13-down – Legal position for sailor, given year unable to sail around? : NOTARYSHIP
16-down – Opening point kept in mind, though not initially made up : INVENTED
18-down – The whole of eternity? : ENTIRITY
19-down – Country in favour of capital punishment – why Bush beat Gore? : HANGING
21-down – Why I can never get a signal on my mobile phone network? : ORANGE
22-down – Extremes of price fixed with a coin of old : PESETA
24-down – So might a cannibal entertain? : HAVE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.