The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 2nd November 2000

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd November 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Muck for not much brass
AAcross 6:	They say the setter's going to 20
AAcross 10:	Make rifts in the loot?
AAcross 11:	In which the fare could have been bacon and mash?
AAcross 12:	Polish invader of close turned back by Scottish painter	RAEBURN
AAcross 13:	Haydn's first fanfare, a lost work — by Mozart	HAFFNER
AAcross 14:	Boast in reservoir with speech of highbrow from eternity?
AAcross 17:	Couldn't one sleep a wink in the poet Thomson's city?	DREADFULNIGHT
AAcross 21:	Georgia's insured against bitterness
AAcross 22:	Initially desirable residence for study of china
AAcross 24:	Gold stirred genius to keep time with saint
AAcross 25:	Provide point to joke
AAcross 26:	What legislators eat?
AAcross 27:	The matter's pressing and has come back in force
DDown 1:	What Delilah did to Samson?
DDown 2:	State how to harden solid form	RHODE
DDown 3:	Worked out the odds of — dash it all — crude being put in barrel	CALCULATEDRISK
DDown 4:	Improve the wretched English Channel no end
DDown 5:	Hot drink coming: fight!
DDown 7:	Support walker on the other side's ground?	SECONDLEG
DDown 8:	First king of England or Great Britain in upside-down genealogy
DDown 9:	Meeting for discussion by couple reportedly bears fruit	CONFERENCEPEAR
DDown 15:	Teacher of physical education eagerly expected outside
DDown 16:	Put up with boy or girl and don't change
DDown 16:	Put up with boy or girl and don't change
DDown 18:	Less reliable performer: thank God I have gone in
DDown 19:	Strip blue berets, for example
DDown 20:	See 2
DDown 23:	Two for the old one