The Independent Crossword Answers November 17, 2022
Across
Rubbish poetry aches endlessly – that’s the long and the short of it | TROCHEE |
Bungling pal fleeced by gold-digger in the end | AMATEUR |
Front of blockade let down for liberal lord | LIEGE |
Looking in mirror, see what wicked types may be up to | TIL |
Carved item bound for synagogue possibly includes symbol different from cross | TOTEM |
Once humans have died off, he’ll really push the envelope … | POSTMAN |
… knocking around at nine hundred like Methuselah | ANCIENT |
Comic character’s a friend of Batman and Superman? | ROBINGOODFELLOW |
Head of airline’s very happy to drop off old fighter pilot | AVIATOR |
One who fancies getting married, perhaps? | ADMIRER |
Cooler’s nice and fiery wings discounted | ICIER |
Hamburger’s good and natural | GUT |
Unprofessionally laid down in the middle of pillow fight | LOWFI |
Wolf impressed by home that’s most unlike a pig sty | NEATEST |
Sister bandages injury at work, ultimately doing this? | NURSING |
Down
See 12 Across | TOTEM |
Calm helper regularly stops P G Wodehouse’s lead character getting upset | PHLEGM |
Novel about small vessel almost too detailed | WENTINTO |
Spanish dish needing one bone but tossing out another | PAELLA |
Old writer taps tablet to reveal parody | PASTICHE |
Master has flogger in Fifty Shades of Grey? | BESTSELLER |
Talented but short Poirot figured out quick getaway method | TELEPORTATION |
Doing job from home, or sticking the telly on? | REMOTEWORKING |
Such a message in album is unexpectedly left | SUBLIMINAL |
They’ll draw up contracts excluding certain stars | NOTARIES |
Row about high-pitched electronic beeping on phone | DIALTONE |
High-flying American brothers picked up parts of bill | RIGHTS |
Flat whites you wouldn’t want to swallow | MOLARS |
Court order put solicitor’s nose out of joint | WRIT |