The Independent Puzzle Answers January 19, 2024
Across
Wild solution, with a degree of overlap, is something to have on hand | MANICURE |
Part of hooter having indecisive sound after a month | SEPTUM |
Very important article about married railway worker | SIGNALMAN |
Warrior tribe held back in reserve at first | ICENI |
What 14 will do: decay at end of use | ROTATE |
Evening music found in Sweden before enthralling another Scandinavian on the rebound | SERENADE |
Son fixing weak part of foot? This offers something to help with knitting | SPINNINGWHEEL |
Lighthouse overseers, three working in British navy, standing beside tree | ELDERBRETHREN |
Last performance – effectively as Desmond, N? | SWANSONG |
Grand Dickensian character showing resentment | GRUDGE |
I start to loosen in time, becoming nimble | AGILE |
A powerful car tails off? My trip needs something much more powerful | ASTRONAUT |
Imagines quantities of Scotch without English | DREAMS |
Irritation I overlooked in environmentally aware German girl | GRETCHEN |
Down
Be uncertain about atmospheric dampness and what it may cause | MISTRUST |
Most of the booze overturned in the dark | NIGHT |
Conservative drive for discipline | CHASTEN |
Uphill standard must accommodate motorway slope | RAMP |
European historical article to be held up as a bad influence | EVILEYE |
That letter, fourth time rejected, rubbished society magazine | THETATLER |
Help secured by knights, say, yet to win | MAIDEN |
Writer with an oddball description of peaceful times? | INTERWAR |
Writerly folk failing to start vote to discard books again and again | ITERATIVE |
Like an emperor, note, one Iran scrapped | NERONIAN |
Left after meal to pen book still topping the lists? | UNBEATEN |
Remove top from bowl made of wood | DISHELM |
Evict number of people | TURNOUT |
Papers about type of speech not entirely found in Cyprus? | ISLAND |
Head start in rebuilding planet destroyer | DEATH |