The Independent Crossword August 24 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 24 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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Defects51 AcrossReveal answer → Goodness me, such infernal clangers!101 AcrossReveal answer → Male singer44 AcrossReveal answer → Idiot singer's third to do a turn46 AcrossReveal answer → Pest87 AcrossReveal answer → Knitting yarn48 AcrossReveal answer → Moving object's path109 AcrossReveal answer → Hired men backing one-man band's performance710 AcrossReveal answer → Passageway611 AcrossReveal answer → Silly people that might be seen turning calculator upside down711 AcrossReveal answer → A million millionth of a second1012 AcrossReveal answer → Island or large isle at sea512 AcrossReveal answer → Musical instrument that is played by the wind1113 AcrossReveal answer → Unkindly say book without introduction's in need of rewrite913 AcrossReveal answer → Hotel employee613 AcrossReveal answer → Woolworths heiress whose seven husbands included German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm1314 AcrossReveal answer → Italian curd cheese1015 AcrossReveal answer → Traditional bat-and-ball game on which baseball is based815 AcrossReveal answer → Two legs moving around quietly avoiding this?815 AcrossReveal answer → American actor, comedian and director seen as Maxwell Smart in the sitcom Get Smart816 AcrossReveal answer → Pop star I libel annoyed about fake news? Just a bit!1218 AcrossReveal answer → Evelyn Waugh novel first published in 19281418 AcrossReveal answer → Constellation whose brightest star is Altair619 AcrossReveal answer → Deep cut419 AcrossReveal answer → See 181220 AcrossReveal answer → Saviour820 AcrossReveal answer → 2005 TV miniseries starring Helen Mirren in the title role1021 AcrossReveal answer → Item of footwear421 AcrossReveal answer → With feet on the ground, he muddled along with losses821 AcrossReveal answer → Drive out522 AcrossReveal answer → House elf owned by the Malfoy family in J K Rowling's Harry Potter stories524 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps wedges and smelly fish introduced by hotel924 AcrossReveal answer → Conversation starter that bloke will duck525 AcrossReveal answer → The US term for legal actions known as affiliation proceedings in the UK1427 AcrossReveal answer → Gives advantage to some participants in doubles session727 AcrossReveal answer → A type of mechanical piano also called a player piano729 AcrossReveal answer → Frozen food in lounge goes out of date729 AcrossReveal answer → Primary villain in the Robin Hood stories1030 AcrossReveal answer → Sparks' latest record is hard work430 AcrossReveal answer → Second-rate student with awful big shoes to fill is on thin ice?1031 AcrossReveal answer → Paris-born American actress whose films include Pretty Baby and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?1032 AcrossReveal answer → The Lithuanian name for Lithuania734 AcrossReveal answer → German-born physicist awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 19211435 AcrossReveal answer → Tin-glazed earthenware made in a town in the Netherlands since the 17th century537 AcrossReveal answer → Economic theory associated with Milton Friedman1038 AcrossReveal answer → Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Derby in 1975639 AcrossReveal answer → 1885 march by F W Meacham arranged for Glenn Miller's swing band by Jerry Gray in 19411440 AcrossReveal answer → A purple variety of sapphire845 AcrossReveal answer → The first British ESA astronaut847 AcrossReveal answer → Trinidadian British actor best known for playing Philip Smith in Rising Damp and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in Death in Paradise1348 AcrossReveal answer → The Rolling Stones' first British single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which became the band's third UK number one1150 AcrossReveal answer → American actress, director and screenwriter born Samille Diane Friesen in 19371051 AcrossReveal answer →

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Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay, famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods61 DownReveal answer → Tips from hardy individual with lamp raising current health standards71 DownReveal answer → Productive81 DownReveal answer → Crystal silicate mineral, the most common species of which is schorl102 DownReveal answer → Proper bit of flagellation's upsetting52 DownReveal answer → Refrain from voting72 DownReveal answer → A large vein that conveys oxygen-depleted blood to the heart83 DownReveal answer → Hawks in parts of monastery perhaps made out53 DownReveal answer → Because53 DownReveal answer → The capital of Qatar44 DownReveal answer → Cover's ridiculous headlines leaving no room for article84 DownReveal answer → Arbour54 DownReveal answer → Caledonian45 DownReveal answer → US critic, noted especially for Axel's Castle, a study of the symbolist movement125 DownReveal answer → Every so often, solver brawls over brand names65 DownReveal answer → Repressed66 DownReveal answer → The preservative E270106 DownReveal answer → American comedienne and TV personality who was one of only four Americans invited to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005107 DownReveal answer → Either end of Jedi master's belt37 DownReveal answer → State capital of South Dakota68 DownReveal answer → Topless crowd reportedly witnessed foul78 DownReveal answer → Sort of milk which Methuselah enjoyed89 DownReveal answer → In J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the great river, east of the Misty Mountains, on whose west bank is the Elvish land of Lothlorien69 DownReveal answer → In North America, the principal unmarried attendant of a bride1210 DownReveal answer → Software trial810 DownReveal answer → Another name for a helix611 DownReveal answer → Reptile612 DownReveal answer → Rubbish government engaged in black humour?514 DownReveal answer → Take over from714 DownReveal answer → Prison uniform left in block516 DownReveal answer → Yellowy-orange516 DownReveal answer → Pair of presidents giving up British for hot secret817 DownReveal answer → The plant Ipomoea batatas of tropical America, cultivated for its edible fleshy yellow root1117 DownReveal answer → Raised strip of land517 DownReveal answer → Ready money418 DownReveal answer → National emblems not that prevalent until Middle Ages, ultimately819 DownReveal answer → Young Greeks wept endlessly over timeless city of theirs720 DownReveal answer → A square dance of five or more figures for four or more couples920 DownReveal answer → See 61022 DownReveal answer → Married couples regularly RSVP to functions722 DownReveal answer → Becoming bricked in, revolutionary saint surrenders623 DownReveal answer → An abnormally low body temperature1123 DownReveal answer → Split seconds from whistle, jammy player overturned lead525 DownReveal answer → The common European thrush Turdus merula925 DownReveal answer → The tree Ficus benghalensis, of tropical India and the East Indies, that has aerial roots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks626 DownReveal answer → Making quick getaway, dodging fine for dishonesty526 DownReveal answer → Self Esteem's almost completed prestigious set of awards328 DownReveal answer → Any congenital growth or pigmented blemish on the skin628 DownReveal answer → Series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts, the first in the series being released in 19941231 DownReveal answer → A table game in pubs played with short cues1232 DownReveal answer → Group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest433 DownReveal answer → Egypt's chief port1035 DownReveal answer → The court jester of Duke Frederick in Shakespeare's play As You Like It1036 DownReveal answer → Town in Spain whose destruction 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War was depicted in one of Picasso's most famous paintings839 DownReveal answer → Each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided641 DownReveal answer → Clothing item named from being worn by Croats in the French army during the Thirty Years' War642 DownReveal answer → Italian word for 'nothing'643 DownReveal answer → French city that was the ancient capital of Brittany644 DownReveal answer → Brazilian football club for which Pelé holds the appearance record, having played 1106 first-team matches from 1956 to 1974646 DownReveal answer → Quantity of sheets of paper equal to 20 quires449 DownReveal answer →

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