This crossword No. 23921 clues and answers were published on Sat 11 Nov 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23921 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – It has a brush with destiny of mortal and immortal : DUSTPAN
5-across – Miraculous execution with potential dangers : HANGING
9-across – Grub – hot stuff’s about right : LARVA
10-across – Amazing mark on goldfish? I’m not sure : MAUSOLEUM
11-across – Cornering movement catching no coppers at first : MONOPOLISATION
13-across – Relative to return after ‘er death : AUNT
14-across – Stuff for puffer in small station without a name : INHALANT
17-across – Return of prizes measure as check to swinging : DOORSTOP
18-across – Voice trial – took part : ALTO
21-across – Such as Cotman and Corot rule out being in the middle : WATERCOLOURIST
23-across – Setter’s thought about six counties being protected : IMMUNISED
24-across – Customary title for primate is a cover : DRAPE
25-across – See 5 : GARDENS
26-across – Eyed sewers near fresh water? : NEEDLES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Fool gets told off : DOLT
2-down – Legal writer possibly heard as operator with money and gold watch : SIRJOHNMORTIMER
3-down – Oprah’s transformation was astonishing : PHAROS
4-down – Hunter of game getting stick : NIMROD
5-down – Heralds’ coming up for air over the Channel high – nothing in it : HAURIENT
6-down – Pre-Christian revivalist finds a space to rise into light : NEOPAGAN
7-down – In English, six tables per room follow mighty Must from Princess Ida : INEVITABLESHALL
8-down – Doubling stone for single people : GEMINATION
12-down – Having acres on map missing page with street on it : LANDOWNING
15-down – Act unfriendly in the sergeant’s mess : ESTRANGE
16-down – Phenomenal firm, one sadly missed by the States : COLOSSUS
19-down – Capital game preferred by Sir Roger de Coverley to 5 25, 10, 3, 16 and 22 : LONDON
20-down – See 19 : BRIDGE
22-down – Backwater with stupendous statue : ZEUS
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.