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Below are The Independent Cryptic August 17, 2021 Crossword Answers. We have changed the way we posting answers and solutions for clues; instead of opening them in a new page we are revealing answers and solutions in the same page. This is the simplest way for you to find the answers. As you see in the left side are crossword clues and in the right side are crossword answers.
Across
| Young female writer before detox essentially wasted | MISSPENT |
| Study follows boring old writer | DRYDEN |
| Mad idiot picked up a jerk | LUNATIC |
| Promise breaking taxman | IMPOSER |
| Inventor lacking edge retrospectively | EDISON |
| Leave coat beside Irish lake | FURLOUGH |
| Anorak wearer possibly teaches at Hogwarts | TRAINSPOTTER |
| Global traveller detained by more insignificant society lawmongers | PETTIFOGGERS |
| Worried ram tails one crying ‘wolf!’ | ALARMIST |
| Masses of text describing conflict | SWARMS |
| Adopts appropriate child | TAKESON |
| Date an Italian chef regularly | ROMANCE |
| Communist spy’s early flight | REDEYE |
| Became less fooled when son replaced first daughter | DWINDLED |
Down
| Picked up plant expected to produce fungus | MILDEW |
| Legal representative’s brief coordination interrupted by senior investigator | SYNDIC |
| Serve into, or tip out, fragrant mixture | POTPOURRI |
| Some vegan ice-cream is quite pleasant | NICE |
| Drive off revolting social outcast | REPEL |
| Offends underworld boss with emotional outbursts | DISGUSTS |
| Arctic underground line | NORTHERN |
| Mathematical indicator of negative balance perhaps | MINUSSIGN |
| I’m getting round America on board stock car | LIMOUSINE |
| A news room broadcast for lady athletes | OARSWOMEN |
| Southern dish for pepper | SPLATTER |
| Changed course after Ascot extremely harshly criticised | ATTACKED |
| Place where men go when river floods home | URINAL |
| Get high through exotic dances | ASCEND |
| Sexy smelling like a Tesla owner? | MUSKY |
| Attraction of up and coming protégée | DRAW |