The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 6th October 2000

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 6th October 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	See 11	YOURHARE
AAcross 9:	See 10	TORULE
AAcross 10:	He was, some said of the Skye-bound lad, a king having no trouble failing
AAcross 11:	Caution opening game plan: author-chefs carry it out	FIRSTCATCH
AAcross 12:	Something fishy about this duck? Try some old port
AAcross 14:	Taking it on the chin, lodger goes out, giving us the key
AAcross 15:	Fool I see in Richard's house - or Denmark's?	YORICK
AAcross 17:	Elevation of priest into a division of the church
AAcross 20:	Still beyond infinity
AAcross 22:	Public transport without conductor
AAcross 23:	Exhausted knight, holding mirror to naked duchess, might get nowhere
AAcross 24:	Constable positioned at this level-crossing?
AAcross 25:	Servant paid on demand?
AAcross 26:	Like the Brontes? That's so right! One's spoken about!
DDown 1:	An engrossing game
DDown 2:	Knutsford, literally where Conservative ran for the money in Harrods
DDown 3:	When fellow leaves for Spain, barely drunk
DDown 3:	When fellow leaves for Spain, barely drunk
DDown 4:	Proclaims, but doesn't begin to intrude in, standing orders
DDown 5:	Hush! It's Newman's "Gone With the Wind"
DDown 6:	No veal raised in this small container
DDown 8:	Community work in the French department
DDown 13:	Cutting communication between landowners and ramblers?
DDown 16:	Po-faced lexicography here?
DDown 18:	The direction of Westerns
DDown 19:	A two-master turning south invariably
DDown 21:	False bread maker ...
DDown 22:	... one could prove it here
DDown 24:	See 2 and 24 across