This crossword No. 23667 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Jan 2006 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23667 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Orthodox priest taking pot shot at compiler : ESTABLISHED
9-across – Impose restrictions on tea in leaderless African country : ENCHAIN
10-across – Plug for Sunday hat : STOPPER
11-across – Bad-mouth fresh crepe garnished with fruit : DEPRECATE
12-across – Shed puts paid to the island : ISLAY
13-across – No more drinks on the magazine! : TIME
14-across – Admirer of Iron Maiden’s Number One Sausage? : HEADBANGER
16-across – Recording of heartbeat broadcast during reception in New York? : TICKERTAPE
19-across – Ruler beginning to sink in pitch : TSAR
21-across – Zeus’s lover had returned in state : IDAHO
22-across – One big, bland, blundering improvisation : ADLIBBING
24-across – Language of novelist in church : CHINESE
25-across – Must dialectal Scandinavian be so dull? : MUNDANE
26-across – Produce fertiliser concealing universal truth : MANUFACTURE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Means of suppressing dreadful shame and panic – seem cold : ESCAPEMECHANISM
2-down – Drinks to the closure of Spare Rib : TEASE
3-down – Wrap up the players on time : BANDAGE
4-down – Stand that is designed as an alternative : INSTEAD
5-down – 24 natives pick up Soldier John, a ruffian : HOOLIGAN
6-down – Extract hypothetical element : DEPHLOGISTICATE
7-down – Germany’s head correct about Germany? Only joking! : GEDDIT
8-down – Earnest request for sportsperson to change sides : PRAYER
15-down – On which to play song about fruit? On the contrary : MELODEON
16-down – Appear nervous, supplying toe of newt to necromancer : TWITCH
17-down – Twist of fate secures booze for East End pickpocket : TEALEAF
18-down – Fighting talk from European vermin : POLEMIC
20-down – Weather-beaten but carpeted? : RUGGED
23-down – Looking up excerpt about Nabokov’s language : BANTU
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.