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The Independent Crossword August 14 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 14 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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Passionate American twisted foot during pause, beginning to limp off71 AcrossReveal answer → Diminutive of Richard41 AcrossReveal answer → Den43 AcrossReveal answer → Stone interrupting ballet move? One may be letting off steam75 AcrossReveal answer → Leave out47 AcrossReveal answer → Server at Mass88 AcrossReveal answer → Sales device109 AcrossReveal answer → Phi taking opening to include reverse of popular device99 AcrossReveal answer → Emptied kitchen provided with latest in fashionable kitchen tool?510 AcrossReveal answer → Cumbrian river valley that’s perceived back to front411 AcrossReveal answer → Sheep's coat611 AcrossReveal answer → Dispensation of your pills including MDMA, with a degree of risk1012 AcrossReveal answer → Plumlike fruit613 AcrossReveal answer → Concluding words about one French city614 AcrossReveal answer → Flowering plant: leave it to revert, surrounded by a lot of wood715 AcrossReveal answer → Rastafarian hairstyle1015 AcrossReveal answer → Husband keeps talking, dismissing foremost London team?718 AcrossReveal answer → Unsweetened biscuits819 AcrossReveal answer → Undergo combustion420 AcrossReveal answer → Net trimmed aboard ship - backbreaking stuff?620 AcrossReveal answer → Askew421 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of heredity422 AcrossReveal answer → Athlete flailing another arm1022 AcrossReveal answer → Give ear to piano in advertisement424 AcrossReveal answer → Discussion subject in honour of film526 AcrossReveal answer → Bribe arranged in Ohio, offering notes in elevated positions?927 AcrossReveal answer → Philosopher’s stratagem involving singular lines728 AcrossReveal answer → Poem’s energy reflected in English crossword feature729 AcrossReveal answer →

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Dwelling place81 DownReveal answer → Tradesman avoids parking useless stuff61 DownReveal answer → Clique72 DownReveal answer → Busy parent very much taken by cricket club - more perturbed over master92 DownReveal answer → Big53 DownReveal answer → Flustered state following drink43 DownReveal answer → Lingers over tucking into quantities of American wine74 DownReveal answer → Revered person44 DownReveal answer → Avoiding politician, elected, though held in prison75 DownReveal answer → Couple45 DownReveal answer → Decide on a vocation to work the fast food till?106 DownReveal answer → Filament66 DownReveal answer → Struggles to get under one collection of invasive plants57 DownReveal answer → Hero of morality play, extremely beset by inversion of reputation88 DownReveal answer → Interpret810 DownReveal answer → Tooth layer612 DownReveal answer → Create place possibly from which article is taken - or where it may be stored?1013 DownReveal answer → Gruesome714 DownReveal answer → Unstable516 DownReveal answer → NZ city almost recycled fabric916 DownReveal answer → Endure417 DownReveal answer → Old King encountered old Queen - resistance showing here?817 DownReveal answer → Forehead418 DownReveal answer → America engaged in special survey, cut short, regarding the United States?719 DownReveal answer → Lovers’ encounter, initially under thoroughly wet part of church?720 DownReveal answer → Shun Italian guy doffing cap621 DownReveal answer → Drunken person leaving new parties on a mountain523 DownReveal answer → Poor bats: upside down amid defoliation425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, August 14, 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.