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The Independent Crossword April 17 2024 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 50 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 50 clues from the The Independent Crossword for April 17 2024. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Record41 AcrossReveal answer → Equine animal54 AcrossReveal answer → Bill's vice is returning in Spanish city77 AcrossReveal answer → Rabble-rousing nurses head off Mary Berry in Glasgow78 AcrossReveal answer → Firing oven48 AcrossReveal answer → Corpse79 AcrossReveal answer → Tennis shot1210 AcrossReveal answer → Prepare the way for metal pot somehow to hold uranium810 AcrossReveal answer → Eat around one in site of Oktoberfest611 AcrossReveal answer → Robust612 AcrossReveal answer → Reserve national team for national leader612 AcrossReveal answer → Flipping bighead John Campbell?813 AcrossReveal answer → Caribbean Island accepts mistake, sick of opposition to the activity of partisans1314 AcrossReveal answer → Not in attendance614 AcrossReveal answer → Items of bedlinen1216 AcrossReveal answer → Free oil on tap is not compulsory817 AcrossReveal answer → Partner's child719 AcrossReveal answer → Partygate in magistrate's office620 AcrossReveal answer → Unable to hear421 AcrossReveal answer → Dry Fe(III)?622 AcrossReveal answer → Cavalry sword522 AcrossReveal answer → Highlight organised demonstration's centrepiece being outrageous823 AcrossReveal answer → Wan423 AcrossReveal answer → I'm not obliged, but try to leave the cost, generally724 AcrossReveal answer → Supports welcoming a recipient of bequest725 AcrossReveal answer →

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Get payback for turning up to promote German city61 DownReveal answer → American frontier stew?82 DownReveal answer → Cake decoration52 DownReveal answer → Friends is returning with immediate impact? Absolutely83 DownReveal answer → Defining line73 DownReveal answer → Millions in bed over the festive period?64 DownReveal answer → Unoriginal and trite94 DownReveal answer → "Mine," repeatedly claims songwriter65 DownReveal answer → Colour35 DownReveal answer → Organ put next to altar, initially86 DownReveal answer → Young eel56 DownReveal answer → Legendary sea monster67 DownReveal answer → Double bluff?119 DownReveal answer → Profound transformation911 DownReveal answer → Eager longing613 DownReveal answer → Hoping to be American secret agents, say?814 DownReveal answer → I traded with a crook, and beamed815 DownReveal answer → Accelerate715 DownReveal answer → Delivery left for one dodgy baker816 DownReveal answer → Adolescent years517 DownReveal answer → Pay no attention to topless foreign eccentric (or topless foreign man)618 DownReveal answer → Entangle518 DownReveal answer → Delicate point raised in church extremely tetchily619 DownReveal answer → Weep320 DownReveal answer → Leather worker in 6d621 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.