This crossword No. 26986 clues and answers were published on Sat 10 Sep 2016 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26986 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Cheers beginning in Pennsylvania, America saw British in retreat : BOTTOMSUP
6-across – Land between mountains with northern adventurer : GLENN
9-across – Potential Mount Everest, primarily for adventurer : FOALE
10-across – Adventurer who packs a punch? : ARMSTRONG
11-across – Spooner’s dance with 10, rational figure : REALNUMBER
12-across – Note success after first from Cambridge : CHIT
14-across – In spirit, the stuff feeding culture for an adventurer : GAGARIN
15-across – Fizzy diet drinks cold, each a cold drink : ICEDTEA
17-across – Possible source of wind resistance in jets : SPROUTS
19-across – Change round Lithuanian and Latvian capitals, as adventurer : COLLINS
20-across – Travel adventurer : RIDE
22-across – Adventurer here, OK with vast ground : TERESHKOVA
25-across – A 20 needing no cab? : PIGGYBACK
26-across – Not moving yet : STILL
27-across – Two prepare for impact : BRACE
28-across – Writer indeed struggling with books, financially needing others : DEPENDENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Very much cake, case of forty or fifty eaten up : BYFAR
2-down – Sailor welcomes artillery and flag waving in battle : TRAFALGAR
3-down – Our cinema’s about to screen a display of marine life : OCEANARIUM
4-down – Priest about right as adventurer : SHARMAN
5-down – Couple after Macedonian leader in Alexander, say, finding buried treasure in Italy? : POMPEII
6-down – Sound way to walk in door : GATE
7-down – Biblical character, one turning on the house of God : ENOCH
8-down – Bedtime drinks for birds : NIGHTJARS
13-down – Spring chicken’s top and stockings new, carefully selected : WELLCHOSEN
14-down – Eatery, however briefly, left sink upside down : GASTROPUB
16-down – Ingesting tail of pterodactyl, three taste a fossilised arthropod : TRILOBITE
18-down – Normal to jettison sandwiches as adventurer : SHEPARD
19-down – Reportedly, European happy to provide dental appointment : CHECKUP
21-down – Belief in female setter, perhaps? : DOGMA
23-down – Very much to say is set aside : ALLOT
24-down – Pumped-up Lebanese port? : TYRE
This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.