The Independent Crossword August 31 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 31 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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Lover of physicist has rubbish hair71 AcrossReveal answer → Effervescence41 AcrossReveal answer → Country bumpkins53 AcrossReveal answer → I must stop tosser spinning yarns75 AcrossReveal answer → Storage unit87 AcrossReveal answer → Smell strongly48 AcrossReveal answer → Religious type in boozer knocked back large short59 AcrossReveal answer → Short-haired feline109 AcrossReveal answer → Minor Yankee republican tackles foreign tongues910 AcrossReveal answer → Actress who played Sabrina Duncan in the TV series Charlie's Angels1111 AcrossReveal answer → Unpleasantly suave611 AcrossReveal answer → Criminal deeds in house belonging to priests repeatedly exposed1011 AcrossReveal answer → Wife having gone to Orleans regularly visited sailor412 AcrossReveal answer → Tooth decay613 AcrossReveal answer → A fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountain913 AcrossReveal answer → Riding style1014 AcrossReveal answer → Item of clothing unconventional male displayed in a manner of speaking1214 AcrossReveal answer → Department of southwestern France whose cities include Lourdes1414 AcrossReveal answer → Very large oval Indian diamond that has been part of the British crown jewels since 1849815 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the papaya616 AcrossReveal answer → Destiny418 AcrossReveal answer → A lot of credit for intersecting two curved shapes in parallel1218 AcrossReveal answer → Magnificent819 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 comedy-Western starring Tom Berenger as the cowboy Rex O'Herlihan1619 AcrossReveal answer → Shabby520 AcrossReveal answer → Redness of the skin caused by irritation or injury to the tissue821 AcrossReveal answer → Ordered wrong drug421 AcrossReveal answer → Snug421 AcrossReveal answer → Sailors on course must find something to keep them moving1022 AcrossReveal answer → German composer whose works include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome1423 AcrossReveal answer → Doctor left enthralled by attempt to reach the other side show925 AcrossReveal answer → American golfer whose two majors were the 1988 and 1989 US Opens1326 AcrossReveal answer → A busy day going round temples primarily to see their most sacred parts526 AcrossReveal answer → Dead old stage performer lay exhausted727 AcrossReveal answer → President has fat philosopher castrated728 AcrossReveal answer → Island in the Caribbean whose capital is Bridgetown829 AcrossReveal answer → Ammunition for cannons consisting of a canvas tube containing a cluster of small iron balls that scatter after firing930 AcrossReveal answer → The aromatic Indian plant Nardostachys jatamans, which has rose-purple flowers932 AcrossReveal answer → European liliaceous plant with clusters of white or yellow flowers834 AcrossReveal answer → The first James Bond film not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel1335 AcrossReveal answer → BBC TV show broadcast from 1975 to 1979 whose regular performers included the dancers New Edition1438 AcrossReveal answer → Breakfast cereal manufactured by the Kellogg Company since 1956841 AcrossReveal answer → 1981 adventure film starring Harry Hamlin as Perseus1642 AcrossReveal answer → A royal crown, especially a light jewelled circlet646 AcrossReveal answer → Ralph ___, British illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S Thompson847 AcrossReveal answer → American pop band who had hits with The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) and Anything Goes in 19671449 AcrossReveal answer → The capital and largest town of the Faeroe Islands952 AcrossReveal answer → Character in EastEnders played by Elizabeth Kelly between 1993 and 20001153 AcrossReveal answer →

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Flourish by the river after kicking the last ones out61 DownReveal answer → A sea bird of the family Stercorariidae41 DownReveal answer → Quartet81 DownReveal answer → Juliet's cousin turned up by a lake with dry clothing62 DownReveal answer → A large, four-legged walking robot introduced in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back42 DownReveal answer → Equine mammal52 DownReveal answer → Relating to non-democratic rule, I coach girl to rebel103 DownReveal answer → A person who divines, especially by crystal gazing63 DownReveal answer → Barrier of shrubs53 DownReveal answer → Pirate74 DownReveal answer → Type of whiskey ingredient54 DownReveal answer → A person who values property for taxation84 DownReveal answer → A method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire image115 DownReveal answer → Observed45 DownReveal answer → Wind towers use winds95 DownReveal answer → Ancient port in Israel founded by Herod the Great that was the capital of Roman Palestine86 DownReveal answer → Freedom from danger66 DownReveal answer → Topless operatic hero in swinging party?46 DownReveal answer → See 18117 DownReveal answer → Most of the web initially enthralled prisoner87 DownReveal answer → Goodness, that's no good for women's power88 DownReveal answer → Canadian rock group whose biggest hit was You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet228 DownReveal answer → Any of the small drupes that make up the fruit of the blackberry, raspberry, etc.69 DownReveal answer → Roman emperor born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus410 DownReveal answer → Peacefulness810 DownReveal answer → Attire712 DownReveal answer → 1979 UK and US top ten hit single for Randy VanWarmer2212 DownReveal answer → Crib613 DownReveal answer → Army branch beer, say, is US property1013 DownReveal answer → Written composition515 DownReveal answer → Coy about admitting backing politically correct party to secure university tenure915 DownReveal answer → Australian wild dog516 DownReveal answer → Naked nurses kiss French novelist816 DownReveal answer → Unit of power417 DownReveal answer → Georges ___, French composer whose works include film music for Passport to Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob517 DownReveal answer → A rebel with ambition to rise in the world of scholarship817 DownReveal answer → The teenage high school student whose alter ego is Spider-Man1118 DownReveal answer → Chucked up some heavy Algerian liqueur619 DownReveal answer → The first black Archbishop of Cape Town1120 DownReveal answer → One has to get key?620 DownReveal answer → Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy, whose seven extant plays include the Oresteia trilogy922 DownReveal answer → Greek character gets stood up two times523 DownReveal answer → Plan to provide parking place in France424 DownReveal answer → Collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce first published in 1914924 DownReveal answer → The capital of Guam525 DownReveal answer → Musteline mammal also called a honey badger527 DownReveal answer → German city that is the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr528 DownReveal answer → Elizabeth ___, English author whose novels include Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters730 DownReveal answer → The oldest of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers531 DownReveal answer → Of, relating to, or resembling a hawk1133 DownReveal answer → The third largest of the Balearic Islands536 DownReveal answer → French city on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium537 DownReveal answer → 2003 album by the White Stripes whose opening track is Seven Nation Army839 DownReveal answer → Home of Rugby Union's Scarlets840 DownReveal answer → Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness and welfare that can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye643 DownReveal answer → 1974 single referencing The Wizard of Oz that was America's fourth top-ten hit in the US644 DownReveal answer → The yellow-and-black Eurasian finch Carduelis spinus645 DownReveal answer → See 201148 DownReveal answer → A bar or shaft on which a wheel revolves450 DownReveal answer → Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart451 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 31, 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.