The Independent Puzzle Answers January 19, 2024

Across

Clues and Answers

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

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