The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,431 - Oct 22 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| Bolero composer, d. 1937 | RAVEL |
| Causing alarm | FRIGHTENING |
| Ceremonially impure | UNCLEAN |
| Climbing plant of the pea family, cultivated as fodder | VETCH |
| Committed to memory | LEARNT |
| Dashing and debonair young man | GALLANT |
| Discourage | DETER |
| Fault | ERROR |
| Fill with high spirits | ELATE |
| Flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture | NAPHTHA |
| German dramatist and poet who wrote The Threepenny Opera, d.1956 | BRECHT |
| Greek mathematician, d. mid-3rd century BC | EUCLID |
| Highly motivated | DRIVEN |
| Immature form of an insect before metamorphosis | LARVA |
| Knock down | RUNOVER |
| Large wader of the sandpiper family | CURLEW |
| Out-and-out | ARRANT |
| Overcast | CLOUDY |
| Possessor | OWNER |
| Regular failure to turn up for work | ABSENTEEISM |
| Short curved naval sword | CUTLASS |
| South Pacific island where both Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin spent time | TAHITI |
| Specimen | EXAMPLE |
| Tree of the birch family | ALDER |
| Varied | DIVERSE |
| White rum, first produced in Cuba | BACARDI |
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