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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