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The Independent Crossword April 5 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for April 5 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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First person in France playing flute – can it make you like the wind?71 AcrossReveal answer → Give weapons to31 AcrossReveal answer → Zeal63 AcrossReveal answer → A new soldier (not the Engineers) is stiff in manner75 AcrossReveal answer → Appended87 AcrossReveal answer → Skin disorder48 AcrossReveal answer → Type of race129 AcrossReveal answer → Symbol of some nationalism that could be anti-brain99 AcrossReveal answer → Hard to produce fake documents?510 AcrossReveal answer → Snack food610 AcrossReveal answer → Small chip losing initial pigment411 AcrossReveal answer → Dancing in the disco offering lots of pleasure1012 AcrossReveal answer → Sibling613 AcrossReveal answer → Managed church after chap dismisses good approach814 AcrossReveal answer → Sorrowful face after accepting unusual sexual style615 AcrossReveal answer → With arms and legs outstretched1215 AcrossReveal answer → Roman poet’s house and descendants618 AcrossReveal answer → Colony of bees419 AcrossReveal answer → Ringing satisfied everything I associated with campanology initially819 AcrossReveal answer → A baker's dozen820 AcrossReveal answer → Went without food621 AcrossReveal answer → Friend (Informal)322 AcrossReveal answer → Can and must rip up document1022 AcrossReveal answer → Fellow beginning to operate axes, following objective of hunt424 AcrossReveal answer → Preacher’s endless babble526 AcrossReveal answer → British novelist gets through extended hibernation927 AcrossReveal answer → Crafty, coating vegetable in unusually smooth way728 AcrossReveal answer → British novelist omitting note about grave729 AcrossReveal answer →

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Loft51 DownReveal answer → Ill-temper obscuring last of fun in UK summertime celebration71 DownReveal answer → Swindler’s success in card game meeting with severe cut92 DownReveal answer → Areas of grassland72 DownReveal answer → Difficult and tiring73 DownReveal answer → Baseball player heading off to go round American Western state43 DownReveal answer → German refusal upset this Parisian after the French tolerance84 DownReveal answer → Haggard54 DownReveal answer → Endless surprise, working for major retailer65 DownReveal answer → Disconcert75 DownReveal answer → Medical rig sorted out killing bugs106 DownReveal answer → In this way46 DownReveal answer → Show turn of speed that’s respectable57 DownReveal answer → Innovative tyre seen around front of car78 DownReveal answer → Exact copy711 DownReveal answer → Given a calming drug712 DownReveal answer → Striker getting criticism after game1013 DownReveal answer → Became separated714 DownReveal answer → Build516 DownReveal answer → Aims I love: getting drunk. Which grape variety?916 DownReveal answer → Operatic song417 DownReveal answer → Raccoon-like creature turned up snake around hollow817 DownReveal answer → Reside518 DownReveal answer → Strong smell certainly rising – part of skeleton718 DownReveal answer → Staff accepting Japanese currency? Hot stuff720 DownReveal answer → Strong Scot’s excellent New Year621 DownReveal answer → Not good enough for university team? University ditched with some honour523 DownReveal answer → Confusion in Times Square425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, April 5, 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.