Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 17th 2020) clues of The Guardian Weekend crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 24 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Novel by John Banville (if once) or Iris Murdoch (if repeated) (3,3)
__ Codex, manuscript containing the unique copy of Beowulf (6)
Island on the Blackwater estuary in Essex (4)
Where Rachel Carson described 5 in 1951 (6,2)
See 4 Down
Name given to the presumed original matter at the time of the Big Bang (4)
Obelism instructing a typesetter to ignore an edit (4)
See 19
Bobby __, jazz musician known for advising us Don't Worry, Be Happy (8)
5 as described by 1 in a prequel to Jane Eyre (4,8)
Karen __, fashion designer and brand (6)
See 15 Down
Jean __, author of Good Morning, Midnight (1939) (4)
International vehicle registration code for South Africa (2)
What Harry Champion, Peter Sellers and many others advised us to seek before we go to bed tonight? (3,3,4)
Number of leagues travelled under 5 by Jules Verne (6,8)
US Army slang for a mess (5)
Leaves of the bay tree, on which one should never rest? (7)
Term for the political phenomenon that began in Tunisia in 2010 (4,6)
Japanese industrial conglomerate whose name translates as Sunrise (7)
__ 5, novel by Hemingway (3,3,3,3)
Dam and city on the Nile (5)
Bond novel and film (2,2)
Crime investigators' term for a criminal's working habits (1,1)