The Guardian - Speedy crossword No 1,272 - February 16 2020
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Graven image' – an object of worship in the King James Bible | IDOL |
| __ Ferrari (1898-1988), founder of the Grand Prix motor racing team of his name | ENZO |
| __ Huxley, author of Brave New World (1932) | ALDOUS |
| Mexican fruit tree from the Aztec ahuacatl | AVOCADO |
| Abnormally large statues or powerful people | COLOSSI |
| At hand | NEARBY |
| Bible-derived song or prayer | CANTICLE |
| Blazonry; weaponry | ARMS |
| British colonial on the mainland of Europe | GIBRALTARIAN |
| Cancels; cuts short | ABORTS |
| Dance in 3/4 time | WALTZ |
| Eponymously-entitled Dickens novel | BARNABYRUDGE |
| Flying ace | AVIATOR |
| Gift or money for services or out of benevolence, usually given ostentatiously | LARGESSE |
| Noah's descendants' construction, attempting to reach Heaven | TOWEROFBABEL |
| Obsolete; antiquated | DATED |
| Pay attention! | HEED |
| Placing in a grave or tomb; burying | LAYINGTOREST |
| Point; ness | HEADLAND |
| Representation of a person as art or ridicule | EFFIGY |
| State that resembles sleep, induced by suggestion | HYPNOSIS |
| Target next to the bull's-eye in darts | INNER |
| Titan, personification of the great river the Greeks believed encircled the world | OCEANUS |
| Very dark, sometimes black, wood | EBONY |
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