The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,281 - Jul 13 2022

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Clues Answers
All-consuming VORACIOUS
Cause discomfort to INCONVENIENCE
Coherent LOGICAL
Concentrate anew REFOCUS
Condiment — use ace bear cub (anag) BARBECUESAUCE
Elastic hair fastener SCRUNCHIE
Erroneously pick up what someone's saying MISHEAR
Female parent (informal) MAMMA
Figure of speech based on comparisons SIMILE
First name of two of the Twelve Apostles SIMON
Obstacle to be negotiated HURDLE
One who eats enthusiastically NOSHER
One who looks after another CARER
Clues Answers
Optical cleanser EYEWASH
Release UNDO
Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts, for example DRUMMER
Rotting animal flesh CARRION
Side that won the American Civil War NORTH
Siren (anag) RESIN
Small restaurant serving wine BISTRO
Small wind instrument with finger holes OCARINA
Starched frills round the neck, worn by Elizabethans RUFFS
Step down RESIGN
Succulent plant CACTUS
Type of living environment HABITAT
What Cantor, Clapton, Idle and, indeed, George Orwell all have in common ERIC