The Independent Crossword August 29 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 115 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 115 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 29 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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Dogfish used as food41 AcrossReveal answer → Clarified butter43 AcrossReveal answer → Spirits chant with wings the wrong way round47 AcrossReveal answer → Strangely iridescent rash108 AcrossReveal answer → The oldest of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers58 AcrossReveal answer → 1969 novel by Philip Roth179 AcrossReveal answer → Burdensome79 AcrossReveal answer → Arms on the counter somewhere in pub49 AcrossReveal answer → Saying510 AcrossReveal answer → Rooney's latest title with foreign team - one Zinedine Zidane oversaw originally1010 AcrossReveal answer → Wrong911 AcrossReveal answer → Very warm312 AcrossReveal answer → Tricks Methuselah will use shortly ... is one briefly taken in?912 AcrossReveal answer → US state1113 AcrossReveal answer → One of The Wailers on the road with The Police514 AcrossReveal answer → 1973 Sydney Pollack film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford1214 AcrossReveal answer → US-born British horse trainer who retired in 2002 and gave his Park House stables licence to his son Andrew1015 AcrossReveal answer → Anxious sheep following that bloke516 AcrossReveal answer → English actress whose films include Titanic, Finding Neverland and The Reader1116 AcrossReveal answer → Vehicle317 AcrossReveal answer → Marriage918 AcrossReveal answer → Anne ___, English poet and painter eulogised by John Dryden in a 1686 poem918 AcrossReveal answer → Back in saddle, a pair of bachelors go out318 AcrossReveal answer → Attack dog's half-cut after two drops of beer520 AcrossReveal answer → A data input device with a limited number of keys620 AcrossReveal answer → Proposal520 AcrossReveal answer → Root vegetable, one of a group found among cabbages?521 AcrossReveal answer → Herb721 AcrossReveal answer → Foot part422 AcrossReveal answer → Actor who played the title role in TV series Lou Grant722 AcrossReveal answer → Area of London that was the original home of Arsenal FC823 AcrossReveal answer → Someone who's made-up about rare catch923 AcrossReveal answer → Impel423 AcrossReveal answer → Organic compound that is an ester of a fatty acid524 AcrossReveal answer → Spaniard's "house white" is port1025 AcrossReveal answer → Horse that won the 1999 Derby425 AcrossReveal answer → Player obsessed with technique knocked back whole band427 AcrossReveal answer → The plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its seeds that are a key ingredient in hummus827 AcrossReveal answer → Transported upon sled, somehow fitting every other bit of globe in1028 AcrossReveal answer → Travel stops Nordic people missing their capital429 AcrossReveal answer → Mediterranean republic whose capital is Valletta530 AcrossReveal answer → 1979 song that gave Kool & the Gang their first UK top ten hit1131 AcrossReveal answer → The son of Isaac and twin brother of Esau in the Old Testament532 AcrossReveal answer → 1986 film starring Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson836 AcrossReveal answer → A small flightless South American bird resembling the ostrich438 AcrossReveal answer → Mediterranean umbelliferous plant with liquorice-flavoured seeds539 AcrossReveal answer → Legal means by which a person can change their name841 AcrossReveal answer → Nickname of Vice Admiral Edward Vernon742 AcrossReveal answer → The largest Canadian province645 AcrossReveal answer → A canton in the northeast of Switzerland, entirely surrounded by the canton of St Gallen946 AcrossReveal answer → Former prime minister of India who was assassinated in 19911147 AcrossReveal answer → American actress who was the narrator of the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird1049 AcrossReveal answer → English poet whose verse collections include The Whitsun Weddings1251 AcrossReveal answer → 1970 hit single by The Carpenters written by Roger Nichols and Paul Williams1752 AcrossReveal answer → Tuscan city famous its Palio horse race553 AcrossReveal answer →

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Violinist, born in Tel Aviv in 1945, who made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963131 DownReveal answer → Penning article, cancel dated book61 DownReveal answer → Addicted (Informal)61 DownReveal answer → Large shore bird of the genus Limosa62 DownReveal answer → See 2582 DownReveal answer → Very steep52 DownReveal answer → The most watched TV show in the United States from 1989 to 199083 DownReveal answer → Bathroom facilities spoiled bedsit63 DownReveal answer → The trunk of a tree44 DownReveal answer → Swindles bringing in very little money for troublemakers64 DownReveal answer → Pagan74 DownReveal answer → English actress who became Baroness Olivier135 DownReveal answer → Unknown uniform seen in upsetting programme's medical episodes85 DownReveal answer → Happening55 DownReveal answer → The capital of Samoa46 DownReveal answer → Old German chancellor perhaps unaffected by revolution46 DownReveal answer → Connected66 DownReveal answer → Society117 DownReveal answer → Woman from 25A doing a turn during gig that is occasionally lacking tricks97 DownReveal answer → James ___, England midfielder who joined West Ham United from Southampton in 2023107 DownReveal answer → Platform48 DownReveal answer → Well-known seduction poem by John Donne710 DownReveal answer → Request from host exhausted religious viewership411 DownReveal answer → A fulmar or petrel that ejects a foul-smelling oil from its stomach711 DownReveal answer → Cheshire market town with a high concentration of listed buildings812 DownReveal answer → 1980s American sitcom starring Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan and Staci Keanan913 DownReveal answer → Poem's outstanding when read aloud313 DownReveal answer → Damaging714 DownReveal answer → Hang around615 DownReveal answer → No 10 tears into doughnut with bad reputation915 DownReveal answer → Past616 DownReveal answer → Stage name of the Ghanaian-born rapper Kwasi Esono Danquah III1317 DownReveal answer → Some seethe as he strokes trophy817 DownReveal answer → Vexed517 DownReveal answer → Additional418 DownReveal answer → A certain lady smiles when leaving M&S319 DownReveal answer → Broadcasting519 DownReveal answer → New Orleans song that gave the Dixie Cups a big hit in 1965619 DownReveal answer → Stuck-up old Stockholm-born actress failing to finish show off420 DownReveal answer → Songbird also called a titlark521 DownReveal answer → Make mummy different meal when doctor intervenes622 DownReveal answer → Wax cylinder working after century, some hope?623 DownReveal answer → Someone badly missing school days624 DownReveal answer → After husband's in a better place, new squeeze?825 DownReveal answer → Personal computer introduced by Commodore in 1985526 DownReveal answer → Penny caught bouquet426 DownReveal answer → South American country whose capital is Santiago527 DownReveal answer → English model and TV personality stripped of her 2006 Miss Great Britain title after posing nude in Playboy1328 DownReveal answer → Blind Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer whose hits include Light My Fire and Feliz Navidad1329 DownReveal answer → 1993 film that tells the story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed into the Andes in 1972533 DownReveal answer → Dark brownish-red colour, which takes its name from the French word for chestnut634 DownReveal answer → 44th Vice President of the United States, 1989–1993935 DownReveal answer → An "Opera-oratorio after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky, first performed in 19271037 DownReveal answer → Synthetic compound used as an anaesthetic and analgesic and also illicitly as a recreational drug840 DownReveal answer → 1983 Christmas number one single by the Flying Pickets742 DownReveal answer → Margaret Thatcher's one-word reaction to the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces in 1982743 DownReveal answer → 1983 UK number one single by KC and the Sunshine Band844 DownReveal answer → The capital of Australia's Northern Territory648 DownReveal answer → A member of the aboriginal people of Japan450 DownReveal answer → The soft fibrous tissue lining the inside of the rind in citrus fruits451 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 29, 2026. 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.