The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,523 - Feb 7 2020

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Clues Answers
(Of film) bleak and cynical NOIR
(For water) 0oC FREEZINGPOINT
Amazingly impressive DAZZLING
Back end of a gun barrel BREECH
Box without punching hard SPAR
Crunchy Chinese vegetable WATERCHESTNUT
Crush SUPPRESS
Eggs OVA
Electric switch operated by pressing BUTTON
False addition to existing growth on the head HAIRPIECE
Father figure PATRIARCH
Forecast PROPHECY
Clues Answers
Fungus able to convert sugar into alcohol YEAST
In a way not yet specified SOMEHOW
Level or rank in a group ECHELON
Make appeals that will never be met BARKATTHEMOON
Mean INTEND
Misery WOE
Moon around MOPE
Not in! UNFASHIONABLE
Partition WALL
Provider of a product SUPPLIER
Single UNWED
Weight on a fishing line SINKER