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The Independent Crossword August 23 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 23 2024. 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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Monarch working to get in style over a long time71 AcrossReveal answer → Turkish military leader31 AcrossReveal answer → Zero63 AcrossReveal answer → Competition set to take a different direction in Durham town75 AcrossReveal answer → Deceive47 AcrossReveal answer → Refrain from giving88 AcrossReveal answer → Needlework69 AcrossReveal answer → Moon’s changing? Granted - feeling sleepy?99 AcrossReveal answer → A dull business redirected Irish police510 AcrossReveal answer → Cutting610 AcrossReveal answer → Skewer911 AcrossReveal answer → Exiled poet? The sod all but returned411 AcrossReveal answer → Religious figure with work after major error?1012 AcrossReveal answer → Fine to move, avoiding black stuff514 AcrossReveal answer → Confused us with details in tiredness915 AcrossReveal answer → Aspects616 AcrossReveal answer → Shameless618 AcrossReveal answer → Find fault with one in competition for building work918 AcrossReveal answer → Type of spectacles819 AcrossReveal answer → Continue to be lecherous, abandoning South English town519 AcrossReveal answer → Turn over420 AcrossReveal answer → Mean621 AcrossReveal answer → Song that gets mighty Thor dancing1021 AcrossReveal answer → Snooker stick322 AcrossReveal answer → Increase threatening sound, scaring off Liberal424 AcrossReveal answer → Artist giving tense exploit a going-over526 AcrossReveal answer → Impudence to steal part of skeleton927 AcrossReveal answer → Institute backtracked without thought and without wanting to cause offence728 AcrossReveal answer → Name bird seen in central part of regatta venue729 AcrossReveal answer →

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Entertained61 DownReveal answer → Dismiss consequence of ‘exeunt omnes’?71 DownReveal answer → Prompt to secure a rest92 DownReveal answer → Artist's studio72 DownReveal answer → Endless sex – turned on, right? – in corner43 DownReveal answer → Remarkable73 DownReveal answer → Car crashed in the clover94 DownReveal answer → Wedding attendant54 DownReveal answer → Pick up what hasn’t been dropped?55 DownReveal answer → Yell65 DownReveal answer → Trivial information turned up, readable but with one misprint106 DownReveal answer → Loot46 DownReveal answer → Soil shortage, lacking depth57 DownReveal answer → Trail tours, catching a source of entertainment78 DownReveal answer → Sweet sauce712 DownReveal answer → Vehicles coming and going713 DownReveal answer → Famous, mostly preferred, on the rise? In the second rank1013 DownReveal answer → Country614 DownReveal answer → Bad-mouth615 DownReveal answer → Preliminary to photography for one quark?916 DownReveal answer → Extreme to attempt a filibuster, perhaps917 DownReveal answer → Run away to marry517 DownReveal answer → Head-and-shoulders sculpture418 DownReveal answer → Insect flying etc around stack of hay718 DownReveal answer → Last in exam? Currently woman’s first in exam720 DownReveal answer → Drug featured in musical item the writer’s set around university522 DownReveal answer → Unpleasant letters often asterisked among unknown characters523 DownReveal answer → Sketch second team’s colours425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, August 23, 2024. 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.