The Guardian Quick Answers

Tuesday, 22nd October 2019

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Quick crossword on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Overcast
AAcross 4:	German dramatist and poet who wrote The Threepenny Opera, d.1956
AAcross 9:	Knock down
AAcross 9:	Knock down
AAcross 10:	Climbing plant of the pea family, cultivated as fodder
AAcross 11:	Fault
AAcross 12:	Dashing and debonair young man
AAcross 13:	Regular failure to turn up for work
AAcross 18:	Ceremonially impure
AAcross 20:	Tree of the birch family
AAcross 22:	Immature form of an insect before metamorphosis
AAcross 23:	Flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture
AAcross 24:	Highly motivated
AAcross 25:	Committed to memory
DDown 1:	Large wader of the sandpiper family
DDown 2:	Possessor
DDown 3:	Varied
DDown 5:	Bolero composer, d. 1937
DDown 6:	Short curved naval sword
DDown 7:	South Pacific island where both Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin spent time
DDown 8:	Causing alarm
DDown 14:	White rum, first produced in Cuba	BACARDI
DDown 15:	Specimen
DDown 16:	Greek mathematician, d. mid-3rd century BC
DDown 17:	Out-and-out
DDown 19:	Fill with high spirits
DDown 21:	Discourage