| INDIVIDUALIST | One with an independent outlook |
| FREESPIRIT | Someone with an independent turn of mind (4,6) |
| UTNE | Magazine with an Independent Press Award |
| EYRE | Literary Jane who says "No net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will" |
| AIR | "As I walked along the Bois Boolong with an independent ...; You can hear the girls declare, 'He mus |
| DOLLAR | Small town in central Scotland (pop about 3,000), with an independent school founded in 1818 (6) |
| FREELANCE | Fish in the country with an independent sort of fellow (4-5) |
| INDIAN | One of us is an independent Scotsman (6) |
| COLOMBIA | The department of Panama, now an independent nation with a strategic canal, was once part of this So |
| VATICANCITY | An independent state forming an enclave in Rome, spiritual centre of the Roman Catholic Church (7,4) |
| ANTIGUA | West Indian island which forms an independent nation with Barbuda (7) |
| TOBAGO | Island that forms an independent Caribbean republic with Trinidad (6) |
| ELBA | For a time, this island was an independent principality with Napoleon I as its ruler (4) |
| ENTITY | An eventuality that has no value for an independent organisation (6) |
| OVERTURE | An instrumental prelude to a ballet, opera, oratorio etc; or, an independent orchestral piece (8) |
| SERB | One from an independent republic that was part of Yugoslavia (4) |
| BARBUDA | Coral island in the Caribbean that forms an independent state with Antigua (7) |
| AUDIT | An inspection, correction and verification of business accounts, conducted by an independent accountant |
| LOUISEWARD | Who, with Gareth, her partner and co-owner of an independent New Zealand bookshop, wrote The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone (2024) |
| LEMMING | Hardly an independent thinker |
