The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,804 - Jan 1 2021

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Clues Answers
Adelphi (anag) — landing place HELIPAD
American handbag — boxer's prize PURSE
Cameroon's capital YAOUNDE
Cut down the middle SPLIT
Darker area SHADOW
Diameter of a gun barrel CALIBRE
Eight musicians as a group OCTET
Exclusive inner circle COTERIE
Exhausted ZONKED
Flooded field for growing food-producing swamp grass RICEPADDY
Frankfurter WIENER
Host city for the 1896 Olympics ATHENS
Like the moon LUNAR
Clues Answers
Medical condition caused by harmful bacteria in the blood SEPSIS
Mediterranean island country CYPRUS
One taking a dive PLUNGER
Pale cream colour — map change (anag) CHAMPAGNE
Pale purple MAUVE
Perfect in every way IDEAL
Poison TOXIN
Region of south-west France between the Bay of Biscay and the Pyrenees GASCONY
Signoret, de Beauvoir or Weil? SIMONE
Spanish conquistador who toppled Montezuma, 1519 CORTEZ
Suspend DEBAR
With no duty TAXFREE
___ Lawson, cook NIGELLA