The Guardian – Quick crossword No 16,492 – Mar 16 2023 Crossword Answers
The Guardian – Quick crossword No 16,492 – Mar 16 2023
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Administrative capital of South Africa | PRETORIA |
| Allocation by chance | POTLUCK |
| Body of water | OCEAN |
| City in north-west Portugal, noted for wine | PORTO |
| Containing iron | FERRIC |
| Cup (‘full of the warm South’ in Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale) | BEAKER |
| Dug up with a shovel | SPADED |
| Factional split | SCHISM |
| Fruit made into wine, gin, jam and jelly | SLOE |
| Gondoliers’ song | BARCAROLE |
| Heir | SUCCESSOR |
| Keyboarding error | TYPO |
| Kind of rectangle | OBLONG |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Large highly coloured butterfly | EMPEROR |
| Make more daring | EMBOLDEN |
| No dye (anag) | DOYEN |
| Nonsense | DRIVEL |
| Picasso’s first name | PABLO |
| Reload (anag.) | ORDEAL |
| Resin used to make varnish | SHELLAC |
| Scope | BREADTH |
| Service — convenience | AMENITY |
| Total body of an author’s work | OEUVRE |
| Total disaster | CATASTROPHE |
| Yield from crops | HARVEST |
