The Independent Crossword Answers August 13, 2023

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Across

Arrive, meeting heads of free trade zone then returning recent visitor COMETZTF
I moon and girl turns round IODINE
Display cut flower AIR
Penny’s sheer fun, cavorting in showers, perhaps FRESHENSUP
Spooner’s 24-hour low period in Exchange TRADEOFF
Route from a finally snuffed-out Planet Earth AVENUE
Rock star Moon obviously round the twist and not all there BONO
High time to appear here? CLOCKTOWER
Tried so desperately to get in my boss’s position EDITORSHIP
Pale moon obscured intermittently for long time AEON
Bear right, getting around a 180° turn first RUPERT
Follower of Wigan or Oldham, but not Bolton? ATHLETIC
Dread tale about fallen leader drowning in loch MORTALFEAR
Low waning moon MOO
Boldly attempt, without Yankee involvement, to reach moon TRITON
Artists dropping by initially for long time devotees CULTISTS

Down

Check with a knight on board – like something out of Chess? CHANTABLE
Gloom finally obliterated by downpour – it’s a plague MURRAIN
Sweet soy curd: meal never finished TOFFEE
Hard Lefties upset by being included in time-honoured series THEXFILES
Reserve forwards having treatment to reduce swelling ICEPACK
Tricksy Medea’s daughter takes on tragic heroine DESDEMONA
Record melody underpinning New World – 27’s NEPTUNE
Without a break paid for by revolutionary? ONTHETROT
Drink fizzy tonic with, say, caviare reportedly COINTREAU
Manage each bad-tempered encounter RUNACROSS
Moon possibly more strange after onset of darkness DRUMMER
Engineers riding express coach again RETRAIN
Buries cat beneath space by empty bins ENTOMBS
Wine store missing the Spanish and French red CLARET