The Independent Crossword August 22 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 109 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 22 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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One boozer drinking like this is sign of pressure61 AcrossReveal answer → Weeding tool31 AcrossReveal answer → Donkey (Informal)43 AcrossReveal answer → Time state reviewed hospital food outlets85 AcrossReveal answer → Raw vegetable hors d'oeuvres87 AcrossReveal answer → A soluble readily fusible white mineral also known as tincal57 AcrossReveal answer → Rugby league club that has played at Belle Vue Stadium since 1895168 AcrossReveal answer → Tear violently48 AcrossReveal answer → Louisiana city109 AcrossReveal answer → I moon gal travelling around foreign land89 AcrossReveal answer → Short lad steals old literary novel610 AcrossReveal answer → Offer to pay more than611 AcrossReveal answer → Revive soldiers hard peasant knocked over711 AcrossReveal answer → Headdress613 AcrossReveal answer → Minister’s bill blocked by abstaining English knight613 AcrossReveal answer → Pierre-Augustin de ___, author of the plays Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro1213 AcrossReveal answer → Insectivorous bird1014 AcrossReveal answer → Canadian jazz pianist and singer who married Elvis Costello in 20031014 AcrossReveal answer → Uniform infantryman stuffed with large fruit414 AcrossReveal answer → Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant1015 AcrossReveal answer → Allusion to changes related to an answer?1016 AcrossReveal answer → 1961 film starring Elvis Presley as Chadwick Gates1016 AcrossReveal answer → Clenched hand417 AcrossReveal answer → Criminal knocks sale for hosiery items1017 AcrossReveal answer → Body of freeholders818 AcrossReveal answer → Daughter of Mohammed who married Ali619 AcrossReveal answer → Honey drink419 AcrossReveal answer → Plunge320 AcrossReveal answer → Title assumed by a Sikh woman when she becomes a full member of the community421 AcrossReveal answer → Horse and colt beset by flipping flatus421 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Phyllis Nelson that topped the UK charts in 19851022 AcrossReveal answer → Cut grass over one trimmed part of garden623 AcrossReveal answer → Tumble, being tackled by excellent hooker724 AcrossReveal answer → The garden plant Nigella damascena1125 AcrossReveal answer → Dutch goalie misses header further down pitch626 AcrossReveal answer → Pubs rung up to get shooters from America827 AcrossReveal answer → Village that was the principal seaport of Moray in the 17th century827 AcrossReveal answer → A way old academic will describe rare dinosaur828 AcrossReveal answer → Surplus of clothing size to be picked up629 AcrossReveal answer → Latin phrase meaning beyond one's powers or authority1029 AcrossReveal answer → English actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer and TV host who co-wrote and acted in Gavin & Stacey1130 AcrossReveal answer → Pelé's real first name531 AcrossReveal answer → The ceremonial gesture used to confer knighthood835 AcrossReveal answer → English writer, film director and visual artist whose fiction has been adapted into the Hellraiser and Candyman series of films1137 AcrossReveal answer → Serie A football team nicknamed La Viola1039 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish pro-independence political party founded in 2021441 AcrossReveal answer → Lady Penelope's butler and chauffeur in Thunderbirds643 AcrossReveal answer → 1965 Beatles single released as a double A-side with We Can Work It Out1045 AcrossReveal answer → American actor whose roles include Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series1047 AcrossReveal answer → Small constellation containing the first magnitude star Procyon1050 AcrossReveal answer → Dancer and actress who partnered Fred Astaire in ten films1252 AcrossReveal answer → American football team that won the Super Bowl in 20091653 AcrossReveal answer → See 291054 AcrossReveal answer →

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Diatribe81 DownReveal answer → Scottish actor whose films include Trainspotting, The Full Monty and Angela's Ashes131 DownReveal answer → Provide52 DownReveal answer → Debtor's not raging about one wiping bill72 DownReveal answer → River that rises in the Black Forest and flows to the Black Sea62 DownReveal answer → Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs83 DownReveal answer → Offer shop might have on crapper loaf regularly53 DownReveal answer → Sailor73 DownReveal answer → A body mounted so that it can swing freely under the influence of gravity84 DownReveal answer → Help head to save outstanding sculptures74 DownReveal answer → Sharp twist44 DownReveal answer → Extinct flying reptile115 DownReveal answer → Old volunteers consuming ecstasy and grass35 DownReveal answer → Organic compound also called carbamide45 DownReveal answer → Vulgar display116 DownReveal answer → One can served up worker filled with Courage76 DownReveal answer → Irish singer, from a well-known musical family, who played Sharon Rabbitte in the 1991 film The Commitments106 DownReveal answer → It is people like your mother-in-law ...97 DownReveal answer → Musical based on a 1995 Gregory Maguire novel set in the Land of Oz68 DownReveal answer → ... Nanna upset about ultimately flat English dish?78 DownReveal answer → Stage name of Derek William Dick, the former lead singer of the band Marillion49 DownReveal answer → Metal clip called a bobby pin in North America810 DownReveal answer → Canadian rapper, singer and actor born Aubrey Graham in 1986510 DownReveal answer → See 481411 DownReveal answer → Fury? That guy will coast on occasion!712 DownReveal answer → Overdue712 DownReveal answer → German romantic composer and conductor whose operas include Der Freischütz1712 DownReveal answer → Idiotic PM, I tell old head of state, creates irritability915 DownReveal answer → Secret store515 DownReveal answer → Sack416 DownReveal answer → American jazz saxophonist who played in Woody Herman's Second Herd and co-led a quintet with Zoot Sims617 DownReveal answer → We might beat The Hammers in Linares, surprisingly718 DownReveal answer → Body of water surrounding the North Pole1118 DownReveal answer → Grease-covered slice of meat dons burnt on the outside719 DownReveal answer → Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36520 DownReveal answer → Whip a person who causes great suffering720 DownReveal answer → A quiet writer vacuous Duchess puts on?722 DownReveal answer → See 121723 DownReveal answer → Industrial port in central Japan, on Honshu, between Tokyo and Yokohama824 DownReveal answer → Reason I will get into record by contralto525 DownReveal answer → Department of France whose capital is Grenoble526 DownReveal answer → The Indo-European language of Iran527 DownReveal answer → Case of red, say, one put in case of brown327 DownReveal answer → Periodic function composed of harmonically related sinusoids, combined by a weighted summation1328 DownReveal answer → The capital of Senegal532 DownReveal answer → Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born writer whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel633 DownReveal answer → County whose administrative centre is Winchester934 DownReveal answer → American singer-songwriter best known for the number one single You're So Vain1036 DownReveal answer → Common name for the Maserati Tipo 60/61838 DownReveal answer → A sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vessel840 DownReveal answer → Former member of Roxy Music much sought-after as a producer842 DownReveal answer → The formal action of going out644 DownReveal answer → Another name for the auricle, the external part of the ear546 DownReveal answer → Heroine of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss1448 DownReveal answer → Indian city famous for its Mogul architecture, such as the Taj Mahal449 DownReveal answer → Landlocked nation in Western Africa whose capital is Bamako451 DownReveal answer →

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