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The Independent Crossword August 21 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 21 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Limit kindness? No one turned away71 AcrossReveal answer → Joke41 AcrossReveal answer → Rowing crew53 AcrossReveal answer → Little doctor’s pronouncement, taking temperature75 AcrossReveal answer → Take for granted67 AcrossReveal answer → Larder68 AcrossReveal answer → Pretend to be119 AcrossReveal answer → Cancel nine to begin with? Nine39 AcrossReveal answer → Cheat, repeating final letter of last answer?1110 AcrossReveal answer → What insurer may do, governed by legal document (European)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Bill of fare411 AcrossReveal answer → Seabird a European country’s repulsed412 AcrossReveal answer → Elderly412 AcrossReveal answer → Staff concealing a title for man, a strict disciplinarian614 AcrossReveal answer → Speak or act evasively1116 AcrossReveal answer → Arrangement of Take Four? How Brubeck might respond816 AcrossReveal answer → Housefly larva617 AcrossReveal answer → More than one report gets old after confusion818 AcrossReveal answer → Deadly619 AcrossReveal answer → Under compulsion, Home Office initially agreed619 AcrossReveal answer → Moist520 AcrossReveal answer → Dry421 AcrossReveal answer → Spicy stuff: hint of masochism excellent422 AcrossReveal answer → Tablet’s revamped trendy element of pen-and-paper game1023 AcrossReveal answer → Fabulist, believer in markets, perhaps, keeping right-winger tense1126 AcrossReveal answer → One avoiding loss in delivery round?327 AcrossReveal answer → Candidate: a lot of negative votes about my selection?728 AcrossReveal answer → Religious groups gathering about things to be revealed?729 AcrossReveal answer →

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Fragrant climbing plant71 DownReveal answer → Do well to study question, eliminating unknown component71 DownReveal answer → Work of art92 DownReveal answer → The writer’s upset Times editor in confusion52 DownReveal answer → Use63 DownReveal answer → Civic dignitary possibly now alarmed103 DownReveal answer → Knight embracing Queen and maiden, making you feel uncomfortable64 DownReveal answer → Weapon34 DownReveal answer → Landed area in muddy surroundings for the army85 DownReveal answer → Laconic55 DownReveal answer → Avoid coarse cotton, dear46 DownReveal answer → Bizarre56 DownReveal answer → Face elevated argument over last of steampunk machinery97 DownReveal answer → One starts to seem crazy, drilling section of yacht with the wrong part78 DownReveal answer → Variety of gypsum910 DownReveal answer → Describing pressure arising from wandering of erratic mob1013 DownReveal answer → Green gemstone713 DownReveal answer → Squandered614 DownReveal answer → American mother keeping various curios in playing area915 DownReveal answer → Young female horse515 DownReveal answer → Cook by simmering516 DownReveal answer → Storms penetrating sheltered zone? Here’s the small print on policy817 DownReveal answer → Adhesive318 DownReveal answer → Particle’s energy absorbed by quiet child718 DownReveal answer → Famous lover's lust for one with husband - apartment overturned720 DownReveal answer → Pen, mostly attractive - digital pen?621 DownReveal answer → Lots of people taking road through garden524 DownReveal answer → Song - again my heart will soar? Not entirely425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, August 21, 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.