This crossword No. 22045 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22045 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Muck for not much brass : DIRTCHEAP
6-across – They say the setter’s going to 20 : ISLE
10-across – Make rifts in the loot? : SPOIL
11-across – In which the fare could have been bacon and mash? : HANSOMCAB
12-across – Polish invader of close turned back by Scottish painter : RAEBURN
13-across – Haydn’s first fanfare, a lost work — by Mozart : HAFFNER
14-across – Boast in reservoir with speech of highbrow from eternity? : SUPRATEMPORAL
17-across – Couldn’t one sleep a wink in the poet Thomson’s city? : DREADFULNIGHT
21-across – Georgia’s insured against bitterness : SUGARED
22-across – Initially desirable residence for study of china : DRESDEN
24-across – Gold stirred genius to keep time with saint : AUGUSTINE
25-across – Provide point to joke : EQUIP
26-across – What legislators eat? : DIET
27-across – The matter’s pressing and has come back in force : RESURGENT
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – What Delilah did to Samson? : DISTRESS
2-down – State how to harden solid form : RHODE
3-down – Worked out the odds of — dash it all — crude being put in barrel : CALCULATEDRISK
4-down – Improve the wretched English Channel no end : ENHANCE
5-down – Hot drink coming: fight! : PUNCHUP
7-down – Support walker on the other side’s ground? : SECONDLEG
8-down – First king of England or Great Britain in upside-down genealogy : EGBERT
9-down – Meeting for discussion by couple reportedly bears fruit : CONFERENCEPEAR
15-down – Teacher of physical education eagerly expected outside : PEDAGOGUE
16-down – Put up with boy or girl and don’t change : STANDPAT
18-down – Less reliable performer: thank God I have gone in : DODGIER
19-down – Strip blue berets, for example : UNDRESS
20-down – See 2 : ISLAND
23-down – Two for the old one : DEUCE
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.