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The Independent Crossword April 16 2024 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword April 16 2024 answers. The Tuesday puzzle has 64 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Salmon perhaps that's potted for sixPINK4Across1 SpeedPACE4Across1 Woody plantTREE4Across3 Welsh male leaving pit for a drinkWINE4Across3 Hack covering for editor is a bounderLOPER5Across6 In proportionPRORATA7Across8 South American animalLLAMA5Across9 Hugh Laurie character, Stuart?HOUSE5Across9 Three, in cardsTREY4Across10 DelightfulCHARMING8Across11 People in line overheard signal for actionCUE3Across11 Cheever and Lessing like subtle openings; does Bellow?CALLS5Across12 I must infiltrate merchants heading off maraudersRAIDERS7Across13 Charlie's Angels finally stopped by British TV networkCBS3Across14 Eyesight defectASTIGMATISM11Across14 WarshipCORVETTE8Across16 Leopard without spots, one breathing heavily, biting hardPANTHER7Across17 RegrettablyALAS4Across17 Italian manager in India getting behind his former teamMANCINI7Across18 Aboriginal New ZealanderMAORI5Across20 Barrier in dim mall that's abandonedMILLDAM7Across21 NearCLOSETO7Across22 WhirlEDDY4Across23 I climb mountain close to Tibet, with a lot of expertise providedSKILIFT7Across23 Animal hidePELT4Across24 Keen bass follows the intro to Summer LoveSOB3Across24 Cardinal's cape left by primate in RomeHUNDRED7Across25 Planetary orbiter, one that flies by central belt of UranusTITAN5Across28 Perfect score for some sport, with no error recalledTEN3Across29 Imaginative genre featured occasionally in Psychic FairSCIFI5Across30 Beano section: Snooty's back!PARTY5Across31 For more than 48 hours, stagger broadcastDAYS4Across32 Cry of delight from Clouseau's certainly on the soundtrackWHEE4Across33

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Shapps ignoring last two flipping expressions of contemptPAHS4Down1 University teacherPROFESSOR9Down1 ConverseCHAT4Down2 Common sense in Pointless seen only brieflyNOUS4Down2 Put up withTOLERATE8Down3 More irritated by technology, singer cans electric currentITCHIER7Down4 AgeERA3Down4 The old smile after joke's conclusion, lookEYEBEAM7Down5 RotisserieSPIT4Down5 Best bit of sax in jazz musician's phrases?LICKS5Down6 School subjectMATHEMATICS11Down6 Canal boatBARGE5Down7 Humourless cynic ill, snarling in medical centrePOLYCLINIC10Down7 Kentish society's yellow climbing flowersROSES5Down8 Like fox driven underground, extremely exhausted, heart flutteringEARTHED7Down10 BankruptINSOLVENT9Down12 FaithfulnessFIDELITY8Down13 RascalSCAMP5Down15 Son in the morning quietly opens junk mailSPAM4Down15 Sacked Brent-alike, infantile crawlerANKLEBITER10Down16 Before longSOON4Down18 SharpenHONE4Down19 Superb poster plugging new French art portraying river nymphsNAIADES7Down19 Keen on mackintosh coatsINTO4Down20 ElderlyOLD3Down21 Made note of Lilliputian island's far sideMINUTED7Down22 Straggling orchestra section, second soprano replaced by 25D at lastSTRINGY7Down23 Puts up with 25D in bedSHTUP5Down24 Guy's expression of surprise about the end of Moon RiverHENRY5Down25 Old politician dumps wife by hotel on a tripHIGH4Down26 Setter supports appeal over jail sentenceTIME4Down27

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.