This crossword No. 23927 clues and answers were published on Sat 18 Nov 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 23927 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Which blinding goddess is on a brief holiday? Give up : VACATE
4-across – Sport short dress : FROLIC
9-across – Mr Redding is on the books : OTIS
10-across – Primarily incestuous practice of having sisters as girlfriends, possibly overwhelming : INUNDATING
11-across – Preserve to some degree penetrating wood : EMBALM
12-across – Spend little time in ring and might one get slated? : HOUSETOP
13-across – Delighted women’s liberation doubly evident in advert seeking buxom lady? : ENCHANTED
15-across – What’s to contend with the 1 down 3? : BONE
16-across – Port – what’s between you and drinking it? : CORK
17-across – Bloody savage strangles river bird : REDBREAST
21-across – Nellie or Rocky has fewer friends? : LONELIER
22-across – Schooner as both glass and ship? : VESSEL
24-across – Tin, say, containing a fish 15 : METACARPAL
25-across – 15 found in Dublin Bay every so often : ULNA
26-across – Quiet singer’s 15 : PELVIS
27-across – Hit on plot, which is chaotic : BEDLAM
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Essential compound has energy to squeeze half of tank in : VITAMIN
2-down – Damage a 15 : COSTA
3-down – In growth, I am indebted to 1 down : THIAMIN
5-down – 15 spoke? : RADIUS
6-down – Tree shelters the very agile : LITHESOME
7-down – Comfort the panel : CONSOLE
8-down – Catch this! The corrupt member hit hard, as source of gossip : BUSHTELEGRAPH
14-down – Mixture of soil and earth for plant : HORSETAIL
16-down – Miss features in prize photo : CLOSEUP
18-down – Oyster, perhaps, one born up against how it’s eaten heartlessly? : BIVALVE
19-down – Front 15 I’m not sure under back : STERNUM
20-down – African capital has no name for the crowned heavyweight champion? : KIGALI
23-down – 15 in 22, say : SKULL
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.