The Independent Crossword April 4 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for April 4 2026. 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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Purchase31 AcrossReveal answer → Name of street one fruit thief crosses61 AcrossReveal answer → Finds the heaviness of63 AcrossReveal answer → I don't know, on reflection, where Napoleon went, OK?84 AcrossReveal answer → Inferior person or thing127 AcrossReveal answer → Customary observance48 AcrossReveal answer → Star-studded 2006 film based on a 1997 George Plimpton book about Truman Capote89 AcrossReveal answer → Type of star89 AcrossReveal answer → Being moving fences closer to breach our border910 AcrossReveal answer → One runs parts of course for ages511 AcrossReveal answer → English novelist and critic whose novels include A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers1412 AcrossReveal answer → Young man caught something floating in the sea312 AcrossReveal answer → Small tower612 AcrossReveal answer → Invasive medical procedures kill great apes1113 AcrossReveal answer → Palm tree fibre613 AcrossReveal answer → The brightest star in the constellation Lyra414 AcrossReveal answer → Essentials and some money carried by little pigs914 AcrossReveal answer → Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen915 AcrossReveal answer → Pre-meal drink816 AcrossReveal answer → A dance in which a person may take another's partner816 AcrossReveal answer → Prepare Turkey's leaders in Syria to undertake further forays516 AcrossReveal answer → Order of insects that includes bees, wasps, ants and sawflies1117 AcrossReveal answer → Without charge418 AcrossReveal answer → South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 19671718 AcrossReveal answer → Number that's square and a multiple of 2518 AcrossReveal answer → Something being made from recipe cooked with wok919 AcrossReveal answer → Three-person relationship1220 AcrossReveal answer → Emphasise621 AcrossReveal answer → Wes Streeting's number two and I leaving cabinet member where he works1121 AcrossReveal answer → Mediterranean plant whose young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads622 AcrossReveal answer → Public transport vehicle322 AcrossReveal answer → Line on a map connecting points having equal incidence of a particular feature723 AcrossReveal answer → The first two letters sent west intercepted by Republican supporter323 AcrossReveal answer → Arabs in cars taking time out524 AcrossReveal answer → Detailed talk by revolutionary Christian925 AcrossReveal answer → Strange noises in empty nunneries generating unwanted scrutiny826 AcrossReveal answer → English actor who played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice1527 AcrossReveal answer → Outlaw heading to trattoria on the outskirts of Brindisi627 AcrossReveal answer → A type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union628 AcrossReveal answer → 1968 Agatha Christie novel whose title comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth2329 AcrossReveal answer → Series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I634 AcrossReveal answer → Peter Carey novel that won the 1988 Booker Prize1536 AcrossReveal answer → Science concerned with physical structure of animals and plants740 AcrossReveal answer → 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School641 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Kenya742 AcrossReveal answer → Hamilton ___, Scottish Premiership, football club formed in 1874 by the Rector and pupils of a local school1045 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Malaysia1147 AcrossReveal answer → J M Barrie play subtitled The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up850 AcrossReveal answer → American actor who played Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy952 AcrossReveal answer → 1933 book by e e cummings about a trip to the Soviet Union453 AcrossReveal answer → 1938 song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal, from the short-lived Broadway musical Right This Way1454 AcrossReveal answer → Evil hypnotist in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby855 AcrossReveal answer →

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Well-known song from the musical The Pajama Game recorded by Doris Day, Harry Connick, Jr, and others121 DownReveal answer → Firstly, dunnocks and goldfinches, and siskins, robins, larks?91 DownReveal answer → Smoked herring71 DownReveal answer → The Eurasian plant Oxalis acetosella102 DownReveal answer → Inventive American dropping son outside of fancy school52 DownReveal answer → Thread42 DownReveal answer → A member of the predominant ethnic group of Hungary63 DownReveal answer → I see ruffled hen, saving skin, jump on mongoose93 DownReveal answer → Mobility aid63 DownReveal answer → Intrinsic84 DownReveal answer → Small, slender, carnivorous mammal closely related to the weasel54 DownReveal answer → Commotion55 DownReveal answer → The capital of Denmark105 DownReveal answer → Books Mike removed from sofa's sides75 DownReveal answer → Light musical drama86 DownReveal answer → Technical name for fever76 DownReveal answer → For example - narcissists, at heart, love authority56 DownReveal answer → The capital of Oman67 DownReveal answer → Have sex in Bude, thereby attain happiness97 DownReveal answer → Subdivisions of an epoch48 DownReveal answer → Characters seen in Mothercare as escalator slows down58 DownReveal answer → Yellow piece of wood lifted over foxhole69 DownReveal answer → King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy910 DownReveal answer → Cross810 DownReveal answer → The legislative council of ancient Rome611 DownReveal answer → Abstaining from sex811 DownReveal answer → Children's game which originated from the Latin version "Cicero dicit fac hoc"913 DownReveal answer → Extremely angry714 DownReveal answer → Arm muscle615 DownReveal answer → Crossword setter had raised ideas in classes915 DownReveal answer → Aged megastar starts to soup up a car916 DownReveal answer → Loud, naked creep, a man - one who's uninhibited917 DownReveal answer → Upright517 DownReveal answer → Maya ___, American author and poet born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928719 DownReveal answer → Senior editor immediately knocked up puzzles719 DownReveal answer → Counterfoil419 DownReveal answer → American TV serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, broadcast for four seasons from 2005 to 20091120 DownReveal answer → Ceremonial uniform seen in criminal trial620 DownReveal answer → Girl who grew up without boyfriend521 DownReveal answer → One creating a carving of mother and child522 DownReveal answer → A slender silvery European cyprinid fish such as Alburnus lucidus522 DownReveal answer → Furry thing on Dickens' face523 DownReveal answer → Nickname of Jean Louise Finch, the narrator of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman524 DownReveal answer → Fruit of the rosaceous tree Prunus armeniaca725 DownReveal answer → Unit of distance used in navigation, defined as the length of one minute of arc, measured along the meridian, in the latitude of the position726 DownReveal answer → Evening meal or dinner typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pm730 DownReveal answer → Any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems and prayers that together constitute a book of the Old Testament531 DownReveal answer → Another name for the snow leopard532 DownReveal answer → Regency dandy credited with establishing the modern men's suit, worn with a necktie, as fashion1233 DownReveal answer → "hundreds and thousands"935 DownReveal answer → 1996 Ken Loach film starring Robert Carlyle and Oyanka Cabezas1037 DownReveal answer → NASA Space Shuttle orbiter that broke apart 73 seconds into its flight in January 19861038 DownReveal answer → German city in Bavaria that was the venue for the trials of Nazi leaders for their war crimes, 1945-46939 DownReveal answer → Series of US spacecraft that made the first flyby of Jupiter in 1973 and Saturn in 1979743 DownReveal answer → Acronym for the wife of the president of the United States644 DownReveal answer → City in Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juarez, Mexico646 DownReveal answer → The seventh planet from the sun648 DownReveal answer → The sepals of a flower collectively549 DownReveal answer → Italy's third largest island451 DownReveal answer →

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