The Guardian Speedy Answers - Sunday, 19th August 2012

There are 12 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Speedy crossword on Sunday, 19th August 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Brought an end to a venture to prevent further losses	CALLEDITQUITS
AAcross 8:	Biblical high priest	ELI
AAcross 9:	Gun dog
AAcross 10:	Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip
AAcross 11:	---- Cantona, Manchester Utd favourite of the 1990s
AAcross 13:	Thickset
AAcross 14:	Genre of slow-tempo Latin music associated with Spain and Cuba
AAcross 16:	Make a mental or written reminder
AAcross 17:	Wholesale slaughter
AAcross 20:	Tiny airer? (anagram)
AAcross 21:	Blemish
AAcross 22:	Tenaciously, with great determination	LIKEGRIMDEATH
DDown 1:	Ancient war game whose name may have derived for the Persian for 'king'
DDown 2:	Grossly exaggerated or over-emphasised something	LAIDITONTHICK
DDown 3:	Allocates; reserves
DDown 4:	New recruits
DDown 5:	Bon mot
DDown 6:	In writing, it may open up a quotation
DDown 7:	Hot Saharan wind blowing into the Mediterranean
DDown 12:	Out of true
DDown 13:	Timepiece read by the shadow a gnomon casts
DDown 15:	50th state of the USA
DDown 15:	50th state of the USA
DDown 18:	Badger's burrow
DDown 19:	Alban ----, composer of the incomplete opera 'Lulu' (1935)