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The Independent Crossword August 21 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 21 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 56 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Limit kindness? No one turned awayCOMPASS7Across1 JokeJEST4Across1 Rowing crewEIGHT5Across3 Little doctor’s pronouncement, taking temperatureMODICUM7Across5 Take for grantedASSUME6Across7 LarderPANTRY6Across8 Pretend to beIMPERSONATE11Across9 Cancel nine to begin with? NineNIX3Across9 Cheat, repeating final letter of last answer?DOUBLECROSS11Across10 What insurer may do, governed by legal document (European)UNDERWRITE10Across11 Bill of fareMENU4Across11 Seabird a European country’s repulsedSKUA4Across12 ElderlyAGED4Across12 Staff concealing a title for man, a strict disciplinarianRAMROD6Across14 Speak or act evasivelyPREVARICATE11Across16 Arrangement of Take Four? How Brubeck might respondFREAKOUT8Across16 Housefly larvaMAGGOT6Across17 More than one report gets old after confusionMESSAGES8Across18 DeadlyLETHAL6Across19 Under compulsion, Home Office initially agreedHOOKED6Across19 MoistHUMID5Across20 DryARID4Across21 Spicy stuff: hint of masochism excellentMACE4Across22 Tablet’s revamped trendy element of pen-and-paper gameBATTLESHIP10Across23 Fabulist, believer in markets, perhaps, keeping right-winger tenseSTORYTELLER11Across26 One avoiding loss in delivery round?RUN3Across27 Candidate: a lot of negative votes about my selection?NOMINEE7Across28 Religious groups gathering about things to be revealed?SECRETS7Across29

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Fragrant climbing plantJASMINE7Down1 Do well to study question, eliminating unknown componentCONQUER7Down1 Work of artSCULPTURE9Down2 The writer’s upset Times editor in confusionMIXED5Down2 UseEMPLOY6Down3 Civic dignitary possibly now alarmedALDERWOMAN10Down3 Knight embracing Queen and maiden, making you feel uncomfortableSQUIRM6Down4 WeaponGUN3Down4 Landed area in muddy surroundings for the armyMILITARY8Down5 LaconicTERSE5Down5 Avoid coarse cotton, dearDUCK4Down6 BizarreWEIRD5Down6 Face elevated argument over last of steampunk machineryCLOCKWORK9Down7 One starts to seem crazy, drilling section of yacht with the wrong partMISCAST7Down8 Variety of gypsumALABASTER9Down10 Describing pressure arising from wandering of erratic mobBAROMETRIC10Down13 Green gemstoneEMERALD7Down13 SquanderedWASTED6Down14 American mother keeping various curios in playing areaMUSICROOM9Down15 Young female horseFILLY5Down15 Cook by simmeringPOACH5Down16 Storms penetrating sheltered zone? Here’s the small print on policyLEGALESE8Down17 AdhesiveGUM3Down18 Particle’s energy absorbed by quiet childMUMESON7Down18 Famous lover's lust for one with husband - apartment overturnedDAPHNIS7Down20 Pen, mostly attractive - digital pen?STYLUS6Down21 Lots of people taking road through gardenHORDE5Down24 Song - again my heart will soar? Not entirelyHYMN4Down25

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