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The Independent Crossword August 22 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 109 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 22 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 109 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#
One boozer drinking like this is sign of pressureISOBAR6Across1 Weeding toolHOE3Across1 Donkey (Informal)MOKE4Across3 Time state reviewed hospital food outletsTAVERNAS8Across5 Raw vegetable hors d'oeuvresCRUDITES8Across7 A soluble readily fusible white mineral also known as tincalBORAX5Across7 Rugby league club that has played at Belle Vue Stadium since 1895WAKEFIELDTRINITY16Across8 Tear violentlyREND4Across8 Louisiana cityNEWORLEANS10Across9 I moon gal travelling around foreign landMONGOLIA8Across9 Short lad steals old literary novelLOLITA6Across10 Offer to pay more thanOUTBID6Across11 Revive soldiers hard peasant knocked overREFRESH7Across11 HeaddressTURBAN6Across13 Minister’s bill blocked by abstaining English knightATTEND6Across13 Pierre-Augustin de ___, author of the plays Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de FigaroBEAUMARCHAIS12Across13 Insectivorous birdFLYCATCHER10Across14 Canadian jazz pianist and singer who married Elvis Costello in 2003DIANAKRALL10Across14 Uniform infantryman stuffed with large fruitUGLI4Across14 Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchantTHEBLUEBOY10Across15 Allusion to changes related to an answer?SOLUTIONAL10Across16 1961 film starring Elvis Presley as Chadwick GatesBLUEHAWAII10Across16 Clenched handFIST4Across17 Criminal knocks sale for hosiery itemsANKLESOCKS10Across17 Body of freeholdersYEOMANRY8Across18 Daughter of Mohammed who married AliFATIMA6Across19 Honey drinkMEAD4Across19 PlungeDIP3Across20 Title assumed by a Sikh woman when she becomes a full member of the communityKAUR4Across21 Horse and colt beset by flipping flatusSCAG4Across21 Song by Phyllis Nelson that topped the UK charts in 1985MOVECLOSER10Across22 Cut grass over one trimmed part of gardenRIBEYE6Across23 Tumble, being tackled by excellent hookerTROLLOP7Across24 The garden plant Nigella damascenaLOVEINAMIST11Across25 Dutch goalie misses header further down pitchDEEPER6Across26 Pubs rung up to get shooters from AmericaBURPGUNS8Across27 Village that was the principal seaport of Moray in the 17th centuryFINDHORN8Across27 A way old academic will describe rare dinosaurASTRODON8Across28 Surplus of clothing size to be picked upEXCESS6Across29 Latin phrase meaning beyond one's powers or authorityULTRAVIRES10Across29 English actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer and TV host who co-wrote and acted in Gavin & StaceyJAMESCORDEN11Across30 Pelé's real first nameEDSON5Across31 The ceremonial gesture used to confer knighthoodACCOLADE8Across35 English writer, film director and visual artist whose fiction has been adapted into the Hellraiser and Candyman series of filmsCLIVEBARKER11Across37 Serie A football team nicknamed La ViolaFIORENTINA10Across39 Scottish pro-independence political party founded in 2021ALBA4Across41 Lady Penelope's butler and chauffeur in ThunderbirdsPARKER6Across43 1965 Beatles single released as a double A-side with We Can Work It OutDAYTRIPPER10Across45 American actor whose roles include Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film seriesVINGRHAMES10Across47 Small constellation containing the first magnitude star ProcyonCANISMINOR10Across50 Dancer and actress who partnered Fred Astaire in ten filmsGINGERROGERS12Across52 American football team that won the Super Bowl in 2009NEWORLEANSSAINTS16Across53 See 29ULTRAVIRES10Across54

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DiatribeHARANGUE8Down1 Scottish actor whose films include Trainspotting, The Full Monty and Angela's AshesROBERTCARLYLE13Down1 ProvideENDOW5Down2 Debtor's not raging about one wiping billSNOTRAG7Down2 River that rises in the Black Forest and flows to the Black SeaDANUBE6Down2 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the play Green Grow the LilacsOKLAHOMA8Down3 Offer shop might have on crapper loaf regularlyBOGOF5Down3 SailorMARINER7Down3 A body mounted so that it can swing freely under the influence of gravityPENDULUM8Down4 Help head to save outstanding sculpturesRELIEFS7Down4 Sharp twistKINK4Down4 Extinct flying reptilePTERODACTYL11Down5 Old volunteers consuming ecstasy and grassTEA3Down5 Organic compound also called carbamideUREA4Down5 Vulgar displayOSTENTATION11Down6 One can served up worker filled with CourageVALIANT7Down6 Irish singer, from a well-known musical family, who played Sharon Rabbitte in the 1991 film The CommitmentsANDREACORR10Down6 It is people like your mother-in-law ...RELATIONS9Down7 Musical based on a 1995 Gregory Maguire novel set in the Land of OzWICKED6Down8 ... Nanna upset about ultimately flat English dish?ANTENNA7Down8 Stage name of Derek William Dick, the former lead singer of the band MarillionFISH4Down9 Metal clip called a bobby pin in North AmericaHAIRGRIP8Down10 Canadian rapper, singer and actor born Aubrey Graham in 1986DRAKE5Down10 See 48MAGGIETULLIVER14Down11 Fury? That guy will coast on occasion!HELLCAT7Down12 OverdueBELATED7Down12 German romantic composer and conductor whose operas include Der FreischützCARLMARIAVONWEBER17Down12 Idiotic PM, I tell old head of state, creates irritabilityILLTEMPER9Down15 Secret storeHOARD5Down15 SackFIRE4Down16 American jazz saxophonist who played in Woody Herman's Second Herd and co-led a quintet with Zoot SimsALCOHN6Down17 We might beat The Hammers in Linares, surprisinglyNAILERS7Down18 Body of water surrounding the North PoleARCTICOCEAN11Down18 Grease-covered slice of meat dons burnt on the outsideSMEARED7Down19 Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36INVAR5Down20 Whip a person who causes great sufferingSCOURGE7Down20 A quiet writer vacuous Duchess puts on?APPENDS7Down22 See 12CARLMARIAVONWEBER17Down23 Industrial port in central Japan, on Honshu, between Tokyo and YokohamaKAWASAKI8Down24 Reason I will get into record by contraltoLOGIC5Down25 Department of France whose capital is GrenobleISERE5Down26 The Indo-European language of IranFARSI5Down27 Case of red, say, one put in case of brownBIN3Down27 Periodic function composed of harmonically related sinusoids, combined by a weighted summationFOURIERSERIES13Down28 The capital of SenegalDAKAR5Down32 Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born writer whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical CarouselMOLNAR6Down33 County whose administrative centre is WinchesterHAMPSHIRE9Down34 American singer-songwriter best known for the number one single You're So VainCARLYSIMON10Down36 Common name for the Maserati Tipo 60/61BIRDCAGE8Down38 A sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vesselANEURYSM8Down40 Former member of Roxy Music much sought-after as a producerBRIANENO8Down42 The formal action of going outEGRESS6Down44 Another name for the auricle, the external part of the earPINNA5Down46 Heroine of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the FlossMAGGIETULLIVER14Down48 Indian city famous for its Mogul architecture, such as the Taj MahalAGRA4Down49 Landlocked nation in Western Africa whose capital is BamakoMALI4Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 22, 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.