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The Independent Crossword April 27 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 107 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword April 27 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 107 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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Golf pegTEE3Across1 TiersROWS4Across3 Dental specialistORTHODONTIST12Across7 Beauty parlourSALON5Across8 The first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962THEIPCRESSFILE14Across8 Feline femaleLIONESS7Across9 Polish king storing a rocket in town 7s threatenGRINDAVIK9Across9 Where the eagle really landed: a backward country?AERIE5Across10 The largest country in the worldRUSSIA6Across11 One putting out second fire in roomINGLE5Across11 High regardESTEEM6Across11 Fruit from tree, poplar, best all but ruinedSORBAPPLE9Across12 A half-tamed albino variety of the polecat, used to unearth rabbitsFERRET6Across13 Retaliate on behalf ofAVENGE6Across13 At home with divine huntress in stateINDIANA7Across13 London tourist attraction with Nelson's Column at its centreTRAFALGARSQUARE15Across14 150 in 19? That's gentle on FagradalsfjallINCLINE7Across14 The European songbird Acrocephalus schoenobaenusSEDGEWARBLER12Across15 Single chap from east cut by Oscar's womanNAOMI5Across16 The hymn of the Virgin Mary, used as a canticleMAGNIFICAT10Across16 WeirdUNCANNY7Across16 American poet whose most famous work is GunslingerEDDORN6Across17 Up to nowSOFAR5Across18 When hot, what 22A may throw out in 7ASH3Across18 Unit of a tennis match, in which one player must win at least six gamesSET3Across18 Pheasant from Sandringham on a ledgeMONAL5Across19 Country whose capital is BakuAZERBAIJAN10Across19 LovingAFFECTIONATE12Across20 OtherwiseELSE4Across21 Crater in collapsed 22A about to devour treeCALDERA7Across21 Memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume of Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-FineckeOUTOFAFRICA11Across22 O look! See about saving ass! In Fagradalsfjall?VOLCANO7Across22 Young goatKID3Across22 Complete justification for narrow escapeCLOSECALL9Across24 A type of computer program that converts a program into machine codeASSEMBLER9Across24 Molten rock in periodical almost duplicated?MAGMA5Across26 Mediterranean island that was Napoleon Bonaparte's first place of exileELBA4Across26 Run through advice for deployment of parasol?USEUP5Across27 Spooner's badger set forth — became stillSTAGNATED9Across28 In the Old Testament, the highest priest at Shiloh and teacher of SamuelELI3Across28 In Egyptian mythology, a moon deity, scribe of the gods and protector of learning and the artsTHOTH5Across29 Abbreviation for a British computer company that operated from 1968 to 2002, when it was renamed Fujitsu Services LimitedICL3Across30 Italian river that rises in the Apennines and flows through Florence to the Ligurian SeaARNO4Across31 Another name for the king cobraHAMADRYAD9Across33 Character in the TV series Lost played by Dominic MonaghanCHARLIEPACE11Across34 The first five books of the Old Testament regarded as a unityPENTATEUCH10Across37 Japanese ornamental form of the common carpKOI3Across39 Liam ___, Ballymena-born actor whose films include the action thriller series TakenNEESON6Across41 The third film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean ConneryGOLDFINGER10Across43 Poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794HOLYTHURSDAY12Across45 Madagascan prosimian primate with a foxy face and a long banded tailRINGTAILEDLEMUR15Across46 Luis ___, Spanish film director who collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou and L'Age d'orBUNUEL6Across47 Protozoan of the phylum Rhizopoda able to change shape because of the movements of cell processesAMOEBA6Across48 Small marsupial of the genus BettongiaJERBOAKANGAROO14Across49

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Another name for the plant Jacobaea maritima, also known as dusty millerSEARAGWORT10Down1 Key to fire engine?IGNITION8Down1 Marriage bundleTROUSSEAU9Down1 The brightest star in the constellation BoötesARCTURUS8Down2 Grass with the blackened ends, so affected by 6?SINGED6Down2 GlorifyEXTOL5Down2 See 40INTERNALAFFAIRS15Down3 One leaving riotous Dáil Eireann in something of a rush?ADRENALINE10Down3 Deliberately old-fashionedRETRO5Down3 Highest peak of the Kunlun mountain range in ChinaULUGHMUZTAGH12Down4 Cowboy filmWESTERN7Down4 Atomic fire-starter in Zoroastrian writings?AVESTA6Down4 City in S Peru, at an altitude of 2250m, founded in 1540 on the site of an Inca cityAREQUIPA8Down5 Living roomLOUNGE6Down5 Glide over snow jolly hard, joining Iceland battleSKIRMISH8Down5 Fungal growthMOULD5Down6 Alberto ___, Italian racing driver who was Formula 1 World Champion in 1952 and 1953ASCARI6Down6 Material discharged in 7 in flow around Valhalla's room?LAVA4Down6 The world's largest media conglomerate from 1990 to 2018TIMEWARNER10Down7 Event near 9 contaminated housing one occupies in turn?ERUPTION8Down7 Moon goddess observed start of 7 crossing lakeSELENE6Down8 The fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry seriesTHEDEADPOOL11Down8 English record producer, musician and music journalist who had a 1975 hit with Eighteen With a BulletPETEWINGFIELD13Down9 Leading forceSPEARHEAD9Down10 See 36ALESSANDROSCARLATTI19Down10 DiplomaticTACTFUL7Down12 1981 film starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare GroganGREGORYSGIRL12Down12 SightVISION6Down14 Japanese cityKYOTO5Down15 Entire crew needed, or staff in total one short?COMPLEMENT10Down15 Working with beauty who might view 7 from 9?ONLOOKER8Down17 Female relativeNIECE5Down17 Stories after Edda initially included poetic reversalANAPAEST8Down18 OutspokenFRANK5Down19 Explosive one contained by fat old polymathLEONARDO8Down20 1977 film based on Lillian Hellman's book PentimentoJULIA5Down20 Clubs do something with American plantCACTUS6Down21 Largest of the Balearic IslandsMAJORCA7Down21 God of fire in delta-wing bomberVULCAN6Down22 The bird Eudyptula minor, found on the Australian coastFAIRYPENGUIN12Down23 Green mineral water taken by fool cycling?AUGITE6Down23 Computer problem arising from the change in date at the start of the 21st centuryMILLENNIUMBUG13Down25 Just for finishers, time is up by clockESPY4Down25 The capital of JordanAMMAN5Down27 American tennis player who won the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1949TEDSCHROEDER12Down29 City and port of entry in NE Mexico, in Tamaulipas state on the Rio GrandeNUEVOLAREDO11Down32 In ancient Greece or Rome, an open-air course for horse and chariot racesHIPPODROME10Down33 A decrease in hydrogen-ion concentration of the blood or a rise in pHALKALEMIA9Down35 Italian composer regarded as the founder of modern operaALESSANDROSCARLATTI19Down36 In the Old Testament, the last of the house of "28" and the only priest to escape from Saul's massacreABIATHAR8Down38 1990 Mike Figgis film starring Richard Gere and Andy GarcíaINTERNALAFFAIRS15Down40 Frederick ___, statesman who was the second President of Zambia, 1991 to 2002CHILUBA7Down42 The state capital of ColoradoDENVER6Down44

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, April 27, 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.