The Independent Crossword Answers October 19, 2023

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Below are The Independent Cryptic October 19, 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

Me, by the end of Middlemarch – “this is a bit boring” MEH
What makes you think it’s a wild animal on college grounds? HIPPOCAMPUS
4 are given to Mum – God that’s handy SHIVA
I doubt that Jackie tucked into large cake on vacation FATCHANCE
Shift 3 lbs with one exhausted groomsman POUNDSIGN
What drunk people do, quietly or loudly – drink SLURP
Spooner? He played works by G Gershwin on the harmonica LADLER
Uncut rocks received by close associate on time PUNCTUAL
False impression given by reference following AI mixup ILLUSION
His Majesty is repeatedly in trouble CRISIS
Fruit snack taken away from gorilla? GRAPE
Vital components from empty cars seen disintegrating by a railway NECESSARY
One next to bar, falling, in jacket, following Trigger’s remark? NEIGHBOUR
Cut Melvyn’s introduction on In Our Time MINCE
Turns about monitor, resulting in Windows getting wiped on drive WINDSCREENS
Naked figure? EVE

Down

Putting L between P and L in ‘misplaced’? MISSPELLING
At the summits of/hazardous alps, ibexes/kick, unearthing this? HAIKU
Perhaps the Crown’s official residence HEADDRESS
West Ham fan’s drawing winger PUFFIN
One struggling with gout fed unknown plant OXTONGUE
Test matches by striking the first two in jars ASHES
Swingers cavorting nude, covered in fruit PENDULUMS
Woman lying on the floor, having forgotten PIN SUE
The result of distilling petrol (with bases of hydrocarbon) commercially? Yes POLYSTYRENE
Pet of boy taken aback by alien showing no resistance DALMATIAN
Festivities during which people are crowned close to present-day Turkey CHRISTMAS
Burst blue pants, by the sound of it DOWNPOUR
Unusual gangster movie in which Fanny Adams gets dispatched SCARCE
Stirred the giant’s spirit ETHOS
Characters somersaulting in Bernstein/Nabokov musical ANNIE
Got up at once NOW