The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,867 - Mar 16 2021

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Clues Answers
Basis of a seafood cocktail? SHRIMP
Chinese secret organisations TONGS
Commit(ment) PLEDGE
Egghead BOFFIN
Ego SELF
Enforced absence EXILE
Fast ball bowled aggressively short BOUNCER
Full distance EXTENT
Hanging decorations of threads gathered at the top TASSELS
Hit at an angle and bounce off GLANCE
Hottest time of the year DOGDAYS
Hurts SMARTS
Initially ATFIRST
Clues Answers
Intermediary GOBETWEEN
Joy or hate, for example EMOTION
Knot of hair arranged at the back of the head CHIGNON
Often involved in mishaps — it concerned PA (anag) ACCIDENTPRONE
One in the know INSIDER
Painstaking CONSCIENTIOUS
Payment still owed DEBIT
Small-time criminal HOODLUM
Spanish architect, greatest expon­ent of Catalan Modernism, d. 1926 GAUDI
Stealing THEFT
The ___ Man, 1949 film about Harry Lime THIRD
Vacancy EMPTINESS
Visible indication of holiness HALO