Independent.co.uk Cryptic - March 13 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Independent.co.uk Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 13 2018 

Clues	Answers
... rent rate has to change	TEAR
Aggressive culture destroyed books	TRUCULENT
Ambassador seeks advice following departure of evacuated tourists	CONSUL
Barbarous and wild leaders of Visigoths ravaged Gaul	VULGAR
Beginning of record covered by Norwegian band	ALPHA
Break dictator's hands	PAUSE
Catholic vernacular embraces every other aspect of cruel religion	CARGOCULT
Checked out potential crime scene when patient died	CASED
Choir mucks about, avoiding hard compositional style in modern idiom	ROCKMUSIC
Chuck Norris wants to fight, ultimately making a comeback	TOSS
Designer's environmentally friendly replacement for interior colour scheme and furnishings	DECOR
First-rate gossip carrying home proceeds of sale	CAPITALGAINS
Gunshot wound leaves round marks	NOUGHTS
Illiterate design or a museum's centrepiece	IGNORAMUS
Lose suspect with court case abandoned	DESOLATE
Makes a killing after one's invested in three pairs of buttocks!	ASSASSINATES
Most angry to lose time for incorrect marks	CROSSES
Not good - does things deviously	DISHONEST
Partners of 9 months less aroused with you and me round	MUSSELS
Rotation while receding from planet	TURN
Sense it's not a serious condition	MENINGITIS
Shock wave's broken up poor dam	POMPADOUR
Sport is primarily entertainment inspired by conflict	WEAR
Sweeping gutter outside house	THOROUGH
The end is nothing great	OMEGA
They're shelled before the French prepare to fire	COCKLES
Traces of raw effluent found in swimmer's lung?	BREATHER
Wounding appraisal of flimsy material?	LACERATING
Writer will read out passage in theatre	AISLE
Yielded, with the understanding ...	PROVIDED