The Independent Crossword Puzzle Answers January 24, 2024

Across

Clues and Answers

Decorator presses buzzer to get drink ICEBEER
When do old cooks dance? HOEDOWN
Fear breaking card-reader DREAD
Seat of learning regularly infers vicar is in Pacific islands POLYNESIA
Chew this stew briefly, the whole lot GUMBALL
Check retrograde public transport’s expected to arrive SUBDUE
Thinkers had to wildly guess SHOTINTHEDARK
Claim made by writer of verse with asymmetric feet IAMBIC
One of several doctors is funny COMEDIC
With three copies, Penny left one out, which is complex INTRICATE
Biting insect found in central Georgia MIDGE
Vendors of storage facilities that can be picked up SELLERS
Rustic labourer originally thrown out of Nice PEASANT

Down

Plot to get drug for old monk BEDE
Deadly virus hard to shift around centre of Vienna HENDRA
Support my clue Angel oddly rejected for ‘flammable gas’ PROPYLENE
Spooner’s enthusiastic girlfriend makes vegetarian food BEANCURD
Conservative Party left-winger taken into account CONSIDERED
The neighbour of Violet Jones, the architect, collects diamonds INDIGO
He lives in torment HELL
Leading revolutionary has brief look at African capital NIAMEY
Formerly a world leader, uninspiring English perhaps lead Italy MEHEMETALI
What sleazeball can give people? Respect, he snarled THECREEPS
Work in film, making quilting fabric TOILINET
Perhaps ‘Fingers’ is contemptible figure in underworld DIGITS
Coin found under a Catholic’s grave? ACCENT
Farewell heard when mother leaves for Indian city MUMBAI
Gets rid of Tintin? CANS
University official made Anderson shelters DEAN

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