The Independent Crossword April 20 2024 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for April 20 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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Intensive publicity41 AcrossReveal answer → Hot air's circulating to plug musical release91 AcrossReveal answer → Shoestrings53 AcrossReveal answer → Fronts for thieving racketeers announce massive price hike56 AcrossReveal answer → Planet78 AcrossReveal answer → Cereal59 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps seventh word in a limerick's too long for it79 AcrossReveal answer → Song sung by fans of West Ham United239 AcrossReveal answer → Fuss (Informal)1210 AcrossReveal answer → See 1 Down1310 AcrossReveal answer → Christmas visitor possibly taking other end of weighty decoration511 AcrossReveal answer → Sheep meat612 AcrossReveal answer → Lad very embarrassed to admit papa's promised money912 AcrossReveal answer → A plant of the genus Erodium, especially Erodium cicutarium1013 AcrossReveal answer → Making a certain sound when stealing away1013 AcrossReveal answer → Defeated614 AcrossReveal answer → City in Steuben County, New York, to which the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works moved in 1868 and adopted its name714 AcrossReveal answer → Bouldering, for example1215 AcrossReveal answer → The world's largest and most populous continent415 AcrossReveal answer → Area close to the centre of Galway city where the Corrib River meets Galway Bay816 AcrossReveal answer → Mansion near St James's Palace that was the scene of an agreement in 1979 granting Rhodesia independence from the UK1417 AcrossReveal answer → Old men up for dancing with yours truly, Methuselah?1018 AcrossReveal answer → The former name of Thailand419 AcrossReveal answer → Decorate519 AcrossReveal answer → The Welsh language620 AcrossReveal answer → Left-winger720 AcrossReveal answer → Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo1021 AcrossReveal answer → Incompetent521 AcrossReveal answer → Among422 AcrossReveal answer → Masculine decoration catching zip has gotta hurt922 AcrossReveal answer → Lioness grabs tail of unlucky antelope524 AcrossReveal answer → Baron ___, Cinderella's father in the pantomime624 AcrossReveal answer → A member of a South American Indian people of Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia725 AcrossReveal answer → Tory leader fills political address with extremely nebulous ideas725 AcrossReveal answer → Observe silicon and another element at work726 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Nepal827 AcrossReveal answer → Country torn asunder without old monarch527 AcrossReveal answer → Token of affection almost returned, but interrupted by fish and chips?928 AcrossReveal answer → Loss of hair from the head or body829 AcrossReveal answer → Snooker ball worth three points531 AcrossReveal answer → 1966 album by The Beatles whose cover was created by the German bassist Klaus Voormann832 AcrossReveal answer → Large town that is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon833 AcrossReveal answer → Country known as Deutschland in its own language734 AcrossReveal answer → The East Indian evergreen tree Myristica fragrans, cultivated for its seed, which is used as a spice636 AcrossReveal answer → 1942 Michael Curtiz film that won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture1038 AcrossReveal answer → The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing641 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a nymph spurned by Narcissus who pined away until only her voice remained443 AcrossReveal answer → 1984 Phil Collins song that reached number one when covered by Mariah Carey and Westlife in 20001444 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for Arthropodium cirratum, a herbaceous perennial plant endemic to New Zealand847 AcrossReveal answer → A salmon up to two years of age449 AcrossReveal answer → Branch of mathematics in which alphabetic symbols represent unknown numbers750 AcrossReveal answer → Torture device called an Eiserne Jungfrau in German1052 AcrossReveal answer → 1954 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco that won an Oscar for Best Song2353 AcrossReveal answer →

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Muppet CEO Kermit soon replaced131 DownReveal answer → French name for the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo featuring the hunchback bell-ringer Quasimodo161 DownReveal answer → Good-looking81 DownReveal answer → After tango, snubbed stranger's left in lurch62 DownReveal answer → The former name (until 1935) of Iran62 DownReveal answer → Pay an informal visit (Informal)52 DownReveal answer → Some irritating sound in my earhole? That does it!63 DownReveal answer → London borough whose wards include Catford, Forest Hill and New Cross83 DownReveal answer → Nadir123 DownReveal answer → Closely cropped hairstyle74 DownReveal answer → Tropical American arboreal fruit-eating bird of the family Ramphastidae64 DownReveal answer → Character who looms large in a seminar's novel reading?114 DownReveal answer → Badger's burrow45 DownReveal answer → Art term describing how much painting can be done in a single day, from an Italian word which means "a day's work"85 DownReveal answer → Beset by problems, I lob my soup over some art95 DownReveal answer → North African vessel sits in Arno now and then86 DownReveal answer → Be quiet!126 DownReveal answer → Caribbean fruit that is a cross between a tangerine, grapefruit and orange46 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Sofia87 DownReveal answer → Rock in more expansive bit of space always losing velocity87 DownReveal answer → Curve47 DownReveal answer → Tourist attraction in Ceredigion, Wales, also known as Pontarfynach128 DownReveal answer → Showing off, dropping name in front of male model88 DownReveal answer → American heavy metal band who collaborated with Lou Reed on the 2011 album Lulu910 DownReveal answer → Plucked musical instrument, usually with a triangular body and three strings, used chiefly for Russian folk music911 DownReveal answer → Made a 'Sir'811 DownReveal answer → See 461112 DownReveal answer → Couple713 DownReveal answer → One text contains just over a hundred mistakes914 DownReveal answer → Submariner beginning to navigate through twisted ocean plants815 DownReveal answer → Green fruit416 DownReveal answer → One got on ... or came down?816 DownReveal answer → Massage on vacation limited personal crisis817 DownReveal answer → Local linguistic usage517 DownReveal answer → Indian dress418 DownReveal answer → William Makepeace ___, English novelist best known for Vanity Fair918 DownReveal answer → During goalless game, reduced team's rolling with punches619 DownReveal answer → Coastal area of Massachusetts that is co-extensive with Barnstable County720 DownReveal answer → Semi-retired US prison boss given notice620 DownReveal answer → See 41121 DownReveal answer → English poet and hymn writer whose works include Just As I Am1622 DownReveal answer → Group of volcanic islands whose capital is Funchal723 DownReveal answer → Relaxed, or wound up, blowing top523 DownReveal answer → Republic in Central America whose currency unit is the quetzal925 DownReveal answer → An atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons326 DownReveal answer → Sir John ___, British composer whose works include Song for Athene, performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997728 DownReveal answer → The process or profession of writing or compiling dictionaries1230 DownReveal answer → A light two-wheeled one-horse carriage without a hood331 DownReveal answer → Scottish economist and philosopher whose book The Wealth of Nations advocated free trade and private enterprise935 DownReveal answer → King who succeeded his brother Ethelbert as King of Wessex and Kent in 865937 DownReveal answer → Otto von ___, statesman nicknamed 'The Iron Chancellor'839 DownReveal answer → The tropical American evergreen tree Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds840 DownReveal answer → German composer best known for his cantata Carmina Burana842 DownReveal answer → Celia __, British actress who played Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV545 DownReveal answer → Trinidadian cricketer who played 40 Test matches for the West Indies between 2004 and 20101146 DownReveal answer → 2011 Channel 4 sitcom set at the fictional Kirke University648 DownReveal answer → Raven in Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge451 DownReveal answer →

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