The Independent Crossword Clues and Answers January 18, 2024
Across
| President of the Royal Society limits monster’s development | PROGRESS |
| One that stoops in autumn: short-tailed rook | FALCON |
| Garbo swims right out after Victor docked in Wisconsin lake | WINNEBAGO |
| Good girl tumbler? | GLASS |
| Little weight unit, and another for gas | OZONE |
| Deviously elect Sire Dudley (as he was historically known) | LEICESTER |
| Following soft steps | FLIGHT |
| Kelly really regularly dispatched someone in the military | GENERAL |
| Lowered the moral character of Daphne’s missing content when retired? | DEBASED |
| Seize her in the auditorium, Groucho! | JULIUS |
| Social group at skid row, Oxford met occasionally in clothes store | CLOAKROOM |
| Rapscallion’s initially suspicious about politician | SCAMP |
| Quaint northern child growing up fast? | TWEEN |
| Have a fling with two royals who’ve departed in recent times | PHILANDER |
| Stop South Asian living abroad with holy woman | DESIST |
| Dadaist of the highest level, finally de Winter can transgress art | MAXERNST |
Down
| Discuss prisoner having one ring between two wives | POWWOW |
| Working outside West Indian state line is a detrimental move | OWNGOAL |
| What hibernator hopefully does about, say, soldiers returning with spades | REEMERGES |
| Regressive ayatollah still restricts this foodstuff | SHALLOT |
| Rebecca’s back, with regret about grand feud | ARGUE |
| Rachel endlessly reviewed books inside Melody Maker | CHANTER |
| Ron lists broken vents | NOSTRILS |
| Really enjoying getting the answers without first dropping the ball | LOVING |
| Plan clues entangled in concept of linear algebra | NULLSPACE |
| Enlightened writer’s boss holds up English antique coin | EDUCATED |
| Hub in Menabilly drops telephones | BLOWERS |
| Du Maurier’s first and last discs by Paul McCartney’s Wings are feeble | DROOPY |
| Force chartered accountants’ organisation to admit a country | JAMAICA |
| Upstanding banana DNA guy protects one from Africa | UGANDAN |
| Some rays of light seen in headland fire | SPIRIT |
| Two books of family genealogies with only the covers remaining | KINGS |
