The Independent Puzzle Clues and Answers February 09, 2024
Across
| Bishop to survive explosion | BLAST |
| Description of special treatment favoured by Yorkshire resort | REDCARPET |
| Group of stars round California primarily having renown in Hollywood | GLOBULARCLUSTER |
| Tutor skipping one month to see part of church | TRANSEPT |
| Station with rodent penetrating layers | STRATA |
| Frenchmen, I allow, will pursue one person new to the country? | IMMIGRANT |
| Recalled row about detective’s call | RADIO |
| Stimulate American to import eggs? On the contrary | ROUSE |
| Power seen in sun over a cataclysmic stellar explosion | SUPERNOVA |
| Work involving payments recalled as sham | PSEUDO |
| A doctor is among company backing support for Asian country | CAMBODIA |
| Encourage toil and all but destroy relaxation? Many reports shedding light here | FIREWORKDISPLAY |
| Country in South America having little hesitation getting control of system | SUPERUSER |
| What angler will do, catching nothing in seaside area | COAST |
Down
| Italian engineer having problem with mindset? Not half | BUGATTI |
| A love for Ancient Rome reflected peculiar charm | AROMA |
| Support hospital governance arrangements later time will abandon | TRUSS |
| Gain power and more money in review | REAPPRAISE |
| Avoid ‘upper-class’ in description of current King | DUCK |
| My breeding activity’s frowned upon, possibly producing ultra-deer? | ADULTERER |
| Audit top person’s initially scuppered | PUTPAIDTO |
| Nasty sort collaring navy over threat to shipping? | TORNADO |
| Less happy about cat, say, climbing large item in tool shed? | STEPLADDER |
| Way of working to exploit actor’s role turning up in play-within-a-play | MOUSETRAP |
| Welsh hero’s fierce expression about death | GLENDOWER |
| Things improvised to restrict Post Office swindles | RIPOFFS |
| One engaged in breaking down or treating breakdowns | ANALYST |
| Standard article, and second, written in pen | BASIC |
| Tense, absorbed in endless waiting for fourth in line? | DELTA |
| God is loving, ignoring Catholic | ARES |