The Independent Puzzle Answers March 17, 2024
Across
Fishy expression – up to no good | POUT |
Succeed in quiz about cancelled or difficult subjects | SOREPOINTS |
Cause of extreme weather faked online | ELNINO |
Graduate student briefly put right about Sartre’s Nausea | MALDEMER |
Sporting footwear with a snappy outfit, both trimmed | WATERSKI |
Acrostic of “find accommodating receptacle to entomb dead” | COFFIN |
School rebuffed pupil’s denial, employing a process for detecting plagiarism | COMPARISON |
Play outside transport terminal in Chiswick | BUSK |
Antipodean’s vital amber liquid, we hear | KIWI |
Owner’s organised report about dog permit oddly ignored | PROPRIETOR |
Don’t take part in operation against ticket seller | OPTOUT |
Ex-PM brewing lager with last vestiges of her late barley | EARLGREY |
Maybe Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence toasted thus? | TWOPIECE |
Born horny? This might calm one down | BRANDY |
“Poorly managed reef, greater action necessary” – Kenyan oceanologist taking sides | GRANNYKNOT |
Afghans regularly overthrown in epic story | SAGA |
Down
Hunter concealed in middle of ox-bow lake | OWL |
Hemp wound up counterpart with tackle on the right wing | TWINE |
How walks up Kilimanjaro and fun runs are backed, or by whom? | SPONSOR |
Macabre effect of 22D 13A is as yet unknown | REMAINSTOBESEEN |
Bird chewed a pencil | PELICAN |
Unusually fine story that’s hard to describe | INEFFABLE |
London and SE might be OK, somehow | THEBIGSMOKE |
Boundless energy from a cat with one special ability – absorbing carbon! | ATOMICPOWER |
Post Office is working to shut up malicious writer | POISONPEN |
Snooker player Hendry’s last cup, perhaps | POTTERY |
Welsh dish provided in bloody small portion | RAREBIT |
It’s clear from the outset – girls love anagrams and silly spoonerisms … | GLASS |
… like mine | DIG |