Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 23rd 2013) clues of The Guardian Quick crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 28 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Tried (9)

Secret departure (by moonlight?) (4)

Off-the-cuff (9)

German Mr (4)

Plant with erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers (5)

Beginning (of species?) (6)

Exceptional intellect (6)

Evening meal (6)

Church caretaker (6)

Underwater detection system (5)

Sound of contentment (4)

Arousing lustful feelings (9)

River of the Yorkshire dales (4)

Vegas beer (anag) — beer etc (9)

Mobile phone message (4)

Were (anag) (4)

Toy weapon (6)

Insect with large rear pincers (6)

Assuage (9)

Currently (2,7)

Shop early (anag) — tomfoolery (9)

Irish county (9)

Biographies (5)

Not in a month of Sundays (5)

Go around (6)

Ferocious (6)

Opera set in ancient Egypt (4)

Christmas (4)

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Latest Clues

• Foundation
• Baby bird shelters
• Surround
• Creepy-crawly abandoning cold place inside
• Follow-up
• Rations
• Bounds
• Flirted desperately, finally having digits to ring
• Exposing man beneath oddly dyed hairstyle
• Supersonic plane
• Terminated
• When orbit's completed, approximately deviating by a third
• Bird of prey
• School member that may attack harp in a rage
• Saturday/Sunday
• Hair colour
• Transversely
• Self-indulgent act (3,4)
• Authorise
• More vulnerable artist found in 2
• Emirate to provide name for large language model?
• Take advantage of some candles I lit up on the counter
• Hallmark of small pen, say, announced
• Hunk of wood
• Liquid rubber

Random Clues

• Not yet settled in time, for short
• Passive-aggressive response
• Tights
• Prayer ending
• More elegant
• License complete quiet
• Tests, in short
• "Job, figuratively, and what's inside each of this puzzle's four longest entries"
• Stair
• What Barry White often sings?
• Joy
• Puts off until later
• Ancient Phoenician port in southern Lebanon known for the production of a rare sort of purple dye
• "Prepositional phrase in ""The Star-Spangled Banner"""
• Fools
• Director Welles
• Coin taker
• Type of cleansing acid
• "Hamilton" actor Leslie ___ Jr.
• The epic about Des from '2 Down'
• Daisy, say, gets fellow more depressed
• Lacking taste
• Workout site
• ___ Moines
• Anarchic