The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Description of Sade's "operator"? SMOOTH
Rachael __, cricketing pioneer after whom England's 50-over competition for women is named HEYHOE
Fragrant resinous substance BALSAM
Creative piece(s) ARTWORK
FREE UNSTICK
GAG QUIETEN
OT book – Eliot's cat 'famous in proverb and famous in rhyme' DEUTERONOMY
Kid no longer crawling TODDLER
US footballer described by Sarina Wiegman as a "trailblazer" MEGAN
Letter receiver? MAILBOX
UNEXPECTED BLOW SUCKERPUNCH
Word jumbles much favoured by crossword setters ANAGRAMS
Acronym for a challenge response test used to tell humans and computers apart CAPTCHA
Curved lake alongside meandering river OXBOW
AUDIBLY ALOUD
Park in central Moscow GORKY
Fantastically successful startup company UNICORN
FRAGILE BRITTLE
Market town and forest in Essex EPPING
SEE 17 ACROSS RAPINOE
The official currency of China RENMINBI
Herb topping Levantine bread etc THYME
ECLIPSE OUTDO
PAMPER SPOIL
__ Peres, former prime minister and president of Israel SHIMON
Andy __, artist known for Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) WARHOL
Feline motor? JAGUAR
SEE 11 THOMPSON
SEE 11 GREY
SEE 16 FLINT
Large (watery?) amount OCEAN
__ Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player CARLOS
BLACKISH WOOD EBONY
Old gramophone material SHELLAC
MAGIC POTION ELIXIR
Ivy League university in New Haven, Connecticut YALE
Tell – as a sow? SQUEAL
Vegetable and national emblem of Wales LEEK
'Om', say MANTRA
REMORSE GUILT