The Guardian Quick Answers

Saturday, 18th September 2021

There are 12 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Quick crossword on Saturday, 18th September 2021. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Recordings of popular songs (they're never original!)	COVERVERSIONS
AAcross 8:	It goes with chicken (and bacon!)
AAcross 9:	One engaged in mortal combat as entertainment in ancient Rome
AAcross 10:	Driving hazard
AAcross 11:	Anglo-Saxon king (with a dyke?)	OFFA
AAcross 13:	___ Gray, young man pictured in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novella
AAcross 14:	Fungal wood decay	WETROT
AAcross 16:	Rise rapidly
AAcross 17:	Put forward
AAcross 20:	State of something subjected to very high temperatures
AAcross 21:	Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that hit Cuba and the US in August/September
AAcross 22:	Irish author of Waiting for Godot
DDown 1:	Not costly
DDown 2:	Diet adopted by Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Shaw
DDown 3:	To do with a particular part of the country
DDown 4:	Part of a tooth
DDown 5:	Read quickly
DDown 6:	Rusty — picture of a cot (anag)
DDown 7:	Retainer
DDown 12:	Relating to the meaning of words
DDown 13:	Repudiates
DDown 15:	It describes how something is done
DDown 18:	Rough initial version of a written work
DDown 19:	Small, long-haired dog (abbr)