Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 9th 2020) clues of The Guardian Speedy crossword.
Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 24 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.
| <span>Naive or unreasonably optimistic character, after Voltaire's </span><i>Candide </i><span>pedant
</span> (8) |
| Iconic fossil of the Jurassic (8) |
| Celestial body (5) |
| Jewish outpost besieged by Romans in 72 AD (6) |
| In a strong position (2,4,6) |
| Ancient Briton (4) |
| Completely wrecked; devastated (2,5) |
| Unbeatable foe: ruin (7) |
| ---- Thorvaldsson, 10th century explorer, the first European to settle in Iceland (4) |
| The modern Persian language (5) |
| Sarcastic oxymoron meaning difficult or impossible to understand (2,5,2,3) |
| Dickens novel (1855-57) (6,6) |
| Greek god of wine, fertility and drama (8) |
| German POW camp of WWII (6) |
| Classical jar for storing liquids (7) |
| Andre ------, eight-time tennis Grand Slam winner (6) |
| Eldest of the three Gorgon sisters (6) |
| Say something that is then contradicted by untimely events (5,3,4) |
| Not perfectly round (5) |
| Mature, prosper (5) |
| In the same place (used when citing a reference) (4) |
| Sets of nine items (7) |
| Place where secret messages, etc, may be left (4,4) |
| The ----, English wetland area abutting The Wash (4) |