The Independent Crossword Answers December 21, 2023

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Below are The Independent Cryptic December 21, 2023 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

Futile endeavour roughing up floor with sander FOOLS
Good old Bluth’s highly profitable venture? GOLD
Tool for moving garden waste from meadow – e.g. rose bush’s first cutting LEAF
Former partner ringing – praising … EXTOLLING
… crime syndicate backing plan framing group of footballers MAFIA
Finish off a bespoke costume with a hat and facial hair? ZAPATAMOUSTACHE
I weep with soldiers returning to front line ISOBAR
News from pilates teacher LATEST
Beano cancelled after putting out extremely racist punchline PAYOFF
Most painful – well, put your feet up SOREST
Somehow Ally Pally discovered other bar for venue ROYALALBERTHALL
Surviving crew no longer appearing to be getting on AGING
Milan side struggle with audience? INTERVIEW
Means to preserve obscure terms from the jazz age – oddly forget ‘splitting’ DEEP
See 4 GOLD
Things that burst out of star’s trousers after length breaks fly SOLAR

Down

See 28 Across DEEP
Mollusc soup cooked by our chef today for starters OCTOPUS
Sounds like a hit from Bugsy Malone SPLAT
Putting gift outside large door – finally giving hint GLIMMER
Set up arrest as practical joke LEGPULL
Property in Spain changes when roof comes off EFFECTS
See 30 Across SOLAR
Parodist – to some extent, aim it at original IMITATOR
Wife leaving weakling for trouble-maker IMP
Runs Merseyside town golf shop originally BOOTLEGS
Article in Times is junk TAT
You’re welcome in new amenity ANYTIME
Dropped in on independent film director FELLINI
Fear and admire cycling SPECTRE
Perhaps King Charles’s plausible story about a knight SPANIEL
See 1 Across FOOLS
See 6 Across LEAF
Goes off short walks TURNS