The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 3rd September 2020

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 3rd September 2020. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Reward staggering, but no end to poverty
AAcross 4:	Very brief dance around yard
AAcross 9:	See 27
AAcross 10:	Old-time dance from theatre's top male surgeons?	THELANCERS
AAcross 11:	I didn't catch that release
AAcross 12:	European match abandoned — accepted by Brown
AAcross 13:	Central company in theatre production	ATTHECORE
AAcross 15:	Shrub came back to life — army mobilised!
AAcross 16:	See 15
AAcross 17:	Stuffing knocked out of Lulu in break of service — retiring
AAcross 21:	Secret drinker comes to earth in Morecambe?
AAcross 22:	High Court division disposes of hollow ruby, making fortune
AAcross 24:	Take butterfly and name 'Bambi'?
AAcross 25:	Folk hero's bonnet
AAcross 25:	Folk hero's bonnet
AAcross 26:	Musical token of affection cut short by opera house
AAcross 27:	Strong punch that would make you croak?
DDown 1:	Clanger: left out large fixed capital
DDown 2:	Nothing outstanding, no ring, no spouse!
DDown 3:	Inca dances, led by bird, that didn't go down well
DDown 5:	Building's unprofitable, as well as lacking love
DDown 6:	California-located, hilarious people working together	INCAHOOTS
DDown 7:	Dress put on mature bull
DDown 8:	Showing an ironic sort of loving care, secret minder fiddled with electronic implant	TENDERMERCIES
DDown 14:	Compact newspaper? That's novel
DDown 16:	Got the wrong idea Adam is too kind at heart
DDown 18:	City relieving poor Uncle Remus of total raised
DDown 19:	Year after Hugo's first success
DDown 20:	Sweep following round Peeler?
DDown 23:	Louse's elevated state kept under wraps