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The Independent Crossword April 4 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword April 4 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 111 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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PurchaseBUY3Across1 Name of street one fruit thief crossesSTEVIE6Across1 Finds the heaviness ofWEIGHS6Across3 I don't know, on reflection, where Napoleon went, OK?PASSABLE8Across4 Inferior person or thingPOORRELATION12Across7 Customary observanceRITE4Across8 Star-studded 2006 film based on a 1997 George Plimpton book about Truman CapoteINFAMOUS8Across9 Type of starREDGIANT8Across9 Being moving fences closer to breach our borderNEIGHBOUR9Across10 One runs parts of course for agesYEARS5Across11 English novelist and critic whose novels include A Clockwork Orange and Earthly PowersANTHONYBURGESS14Across12 Young man caught something floating in the seaBOY3Across12 Small towerTURRET6Across12 Invasive medical procedures kill great apesENDOSCOPIES11Across13 Palm tree fibreRAFFIA6Across13 The brightest star in the constellation LyraVEGA4Across14 Essentials and some money carried by little pigsRUDIMENTS9Across14 Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian AndersenDANNYKAYE9Across15 Pre-meal drinkAPERITIF8Across16 A dance in which a person may take another's partnerEXCUSEME8Across16 Prepare Turkey's leaders in Syria to undertake further foraysSTUFF5Across16 Order of insects that includes bees, wasps, ants and sawfliesHYMENOPTERA11Across17 Without chargeFREE4Across18 South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967CHRISTIAANBARNARD17Across18 Number that's square and a multiple of 2SEVEN5Across18 Something being made from recipe cooked with wokWORKPIECE9Across19 Three-person relationshipMENAGEATROIS12Across20 EmphasiseSTRESS6Across21 Wes Streeting's number two and I leaving cabinet member where he worksWESTMINSTER11Across21 Mediterranean plant whose young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in saladsBORAGE6Across22 Public transport vehicleBUS3Across22 Line on a map connecting points having equal incidence of a particular featureISOGRAM7Across23 The first two letters sent west intercepted by Republican supporterBRA3Across23 Arabs in cars taking time outMOORS5Across24 Detailed talk by revolutionary ChristianELABORATE9Across25 Strange noises in empty nunneries generating unwanted scrutinyNOSINESS8Across26 English actor who played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live TwiceDONALDPLEASENCE15Across27 Outlaw heading to trattoria on the outskirts of BrindisiBANDIT6Across27 A type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet UnionOBLAST6Across28 1968 Agatha Christie novel whose title comes from Shakespeare's MacbethBYTHEPRICKINGOFMYTHUMBS23Across29 Series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War IENIGMA6Across34 Peter Carey novel that won the 1988 Booker PrizeOSCARANDLUCINDA15Across36 Science concerned with physical structure of animals and plantsANATOMY7Across40 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High SchoolGREASE6Across41 The capital of KenyaNAIROBI7Across42 Hamilton ___, Scottish Premiership, football club formed in 1874 by the Rector and pupils of a local schoolACADEMICAL10Across45 The capital of MalaysiaKUALALUMPUR11Across47 J M Barrie play subtitled The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow UpPETERPAN8Across50 American actor who played Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings film trilogySEANASTIN9Across52 1933 book by e e cummings about a trip to the Soviet UnionEIMI4Across53 1938 song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal, from the short-lived Broadway musical Right This WayILLBESEEINGYOU14Across54 Evil hypnotist in George du Maurier's 1894 novel TrilbySVENGALI8Across55

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Well-known song from the musical The Pajama Game recorded by Doris Day, Harry Connick, Jr, and othersONCEAYEARDAY12Down1 Firstly, dunnocks and goldfinches, and siskins, robins, larks?SONGBIRDS9Down1 Smoked herringBLOATER7Down1 The Eurasian plant Oxalis acetosellaWOODSORREL10Down2 Inventive American dropping son outside of fancy schoolEDIFY5Down2 ThreadYARN4Down2 A member of the predominant ethnic group of HungaryMAGYAR6Down3 I see ruffled hen, saving skin, jump on mongooseICHNEUMON9Down3 Mobility aidWALKER6Down3 IntrinsicINTEGRAL8Down4 Small, slender, carnivorous mammal closely related to the weaselSTOAT5Down4 CommotionHOOHA5Down5 The capital of DenmarkCOPENHAGEN10Down5 Books Mike removed from sofa's sidesARRESTS7Down5 Light musical dramaOPERETTA8Down6 Technical name for feverPYREXIA7Down6 For example - narcissists, at heart, love authoritySAYSO5Down6 The capital of OmanMUSCAT6Down7 Have sex in Bude, thereby attain happinessBEATITUDE9Down7 Subdivisions of an epochAGES4Down8 Characters seen in Mothercare as escalator slows downEASES5Down8 Yellow piece of wood lifted over foxholeGOLDEN6Down9 King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of TroyAGAMEMNON9Down10 CrossTRAVERSE8Down10 The legislative council of ancient RomeSENATE6Down11 Abstaining from sexCELIBATE8Down11 Children's game which originated from the Latin version "Cicero dicit fac hoc"SIMONSAYS9Down13 Extremely angryFURIOUS7Down14 Arm muscleBICEPS6Down15 Crossword setter had raised ideas in classesDIVISIONS9Down15 Aged megastar starts to soup up a carSUPERNOVA9Down16 Loud, naked creep, a man - one who's uninhibitedFREEAGENT9Down17 UprightERECT5Down17 Maya ___, American author and poet born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928ANGELOU7Down19 Senior editor immediately knocked up puzzlesWONDERS7Down19 CounterfoilSTUB4Down19 American TV serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, broadcast for four seasons from 2005 to 2009PRISONBREAK11Down20 Ceremonial uniform seen in criminal trialRITUAL6Down20 Girl who grew up without boyfriendWOMAN5Down21 One creating a carving of mother and childMASON5Down22 A slender silvery European cyprinid fish such as Alburnus lucidusBLEAK5Down22 Furry thing on Dickens' faceBEARD5Down23 Nickname of Jean Louise Finch, the narrator of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a WatchmanSCOUT5Down24 Fruit of the rosaceous tree Prunus armeniacaAPRICOT7Down25 Unit of distance used in navigation, defined as the length of one minute of arc, measured along the meridian, in the latitude of the positionSEAMILE7Down26 Evening meal or dinner typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pmHIGHTEA7Down30 Any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems and prayers that together constitute a book of the Old TestamentPSALM5Down31 Another name for the snow leopardOUNCE5Down32 Regency dandy credited with establishing the modern men's suit, worn with a necktie, as fashionBEAUBRUMMELL12Down33 "hundreds and thousands"NONPAREIL9Down35 1996 Ken Loach film starring Robert Carlyle and Oyanka CabezasCARLASSONG10Down37 NASA Space Shuttle orbiter that broke apart 73 seconds into its flight in January 1986CHALLENGER10Down38 German city in Bavaria that was the venue for the trials of Nazi leaders for their war crimes, 1945-46NUREMBERG9Down39 Series of US spacecraft that made the first flyby of Jupiter in 1973 and Saturn in 1979PIONEER7Down43 Acronym for the wife of the president of the United StatesFLOTUS6Down44 City in Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juarez, MexicoELPASO6Down46 The seventh planet from the sunURANUS6Down48 The sepals of a flower collectivelyCALYX5Down49 Italy's third largest islandELBA4Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, April 4, 2026. 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.