The Guardian Speedy Answers - Sunday, 9th August 2020

There are 12 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Speedy crossword on Sunday, 9th August 2020. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Ancient Briton	PICT
AAcross 3:	Iconic fossil of the Jurassic
AAcross 9:	Unbeatable foe: ruin
AAcross 10:	The modern Persian language
AAcross 11:	Dickens novel (1855-57)	LITTLEDORRIT
AAcross 13:	German POW camp of WWII
AAcross 15:	Andre ------, eight-time tennis Grand Slam winner	AGASSI
AAcross 17:	Say something that is then contradicted by untimely events	SPEAKTOOSOON
AAcross 20:	Mature, prosper
AAcross 21:	Sets of nine items
AAcross 22:	Place where secret messages, etc, may be left
AAcross 23:	The ----, English wetland area abutting The Wash
DDown 1:	Naive or unreasonably optimistic character, after Voltaire's Candide pedant
DDown 2:	Celestial body
DDown 4:	Jewish outpost besieged by Romans in 72 AD	MASADA
DDown 5:	In a strong position	ONFIRMGROUND
DDown 6:	Completely wrecked; devastated	INRUINS
DDown 7:	---- Thorvaldsson, 10th century explorer, the first European to settle in Iceland	ERIK
DDown 8:	Sarcastic oxymoron meaning difficult or impossible to understand	ASCLEARASMUD
DDown 12:	Greek god of wine, fertility and drama
DDown 14:	Classical jar for storing liquids
DDown 16:	Eldest of the three Gorgon sisters
DDown 18:	Not perfectly round
DDown 19:	In the same place (used when citing a reference)