This crossword No. 23861 clues and answers were published on Sat 02 Sep 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23861 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – One feature in bachelor which is delicate : BONECHINA
10-across – Danger for 49 : PERIL
11-across – Blessed one on drug, the hard stuff : STONE
12-across – 11 times with the bat, past : MIDDLESEX
13-across – 11 reserves used to attack : ARSENAL
14-across – 11 hit, catching king : WREXHAM
17-across – Turn pair of keys to open drink : ADDLE
19-across – Spring vegetable making comeback : MAY
20-across – Material hardly stood out! : SATIN
21-across – 11, at any moment, 160 of them : EVERTON
22-across – 11s having singular ailment? : SHINGLE
24-across – Fruit considered tasteless? : RASPBERRY
26-across – Boy making sound of crane : DEREK
28-across – French product meeting resistance, rose : BRIER
29-across – Material’s check set in 11, perhaps : VELVETEEN
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Bird, I repeat! : IBIS
2-down – More than one bulb emitting light is on when switched : ONIONS
3-down – Trial where one gets shot : SCREENTEST
4-down – Melancholic face capturing painful experience : DISMAL
5-down – Criticise unfashionable US dessert : PANDOWDY
6-down – 11 circle supported by rootless tree : OPAL
7-down – One with authority like mum, scallywag admits : BRASSHAT
8-down – Plant Latin in modern communication : FLAX
13-down – 11 needing a number of supporters : AGATE
15-down – Malay archipelago etc facing 11 from the West : EASTINDIES
16-down – Appear affected, as meat : MINCE
18-down – Hearing honeybunch’s family, hide! : DEERSKIN
19-down – Plant not entirely hot during migration : MANGROVE
22-down – Sea monster fighting partner with riot gas, rearing : SCYLLA
23-down – 11 for which newspaper’s written up score : GARNET
24-down – 11 in sport getting through … : RUBY
25-down – … thrashed 11 : BURY
27-down – 11 known much further north : KENT
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.