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Below are The Independent Cryptic January 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

Reduce consumption? That’s futile	USELESS
Man turned right in Bath, finding trouble	DISTURB
French footballer in Post Office misplaced bag	POGBA
Lunatic Pope stood against	OPPOSEDTO
Giving report about company in recession on the move?	RELOCATING
Hike starts in The Rip and ends in the outback	TREK
Draft right-winger seen prior to joining airborne regiment?	PREPARATORY
Mean drunk getting punched	TIGHTFISTED
Before leaving reclusive sort makes widow’s contribution	MITE
One suggesting secure area round port	HINTERLAND
Belligerent destroying mortars and guns here and there	STRONGARM
Four getting stuck into the drink — bubbly?	ALIVE
Sappers permitted to enter gym that’s full	REPLETE
Get expert to contain buzzing hive	ACHIEVE

Down

Member brought to anger by posh Lord’s official?	UMPIRE
Becomes hard to follow case of Etonian political theorist	ENGELS
Free issue includes image from the bottom	EMANCIPATE
Prisoner’s baccy in tin with refill needed	SNOUT
Client wants some foreign jewellery item	DEPENDANT
Elite soldiers bashing in middle window-frame	SASH
Make rare gaffe initially being an outsider	UNDERDOG
Girl under water in populous borough	BROOKLYN
Norse god to frustrate stupid talk	BALDERDASH
How heat might knock one out?	ELIMINATE
Storm in Timor Sea that generates spray	ATOMISER
Article by twerp to support subversive literature	AGITPROP
One’s seen in valley in this case	VALISE
Bond one plugging away? On the contrary	ADHERE
Monkey caught in an American city	TAMPA
Stake — not post	ANTE