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The Independent Crossword August 31 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 31 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 108 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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Lover of physicist has rubbish hairTATLOCK7Across1 EffervescenceFIZZ4Across1 Country bumpkinsHICKS5Across3 I must stop tosser spinning yarnsSTORIES7Across5 Storage unitCUPBOARD8Across7 Smell stronglyREEK4Across8 Religious type in boozer knocked back large shortRABBI5Across9 Short-haired felineSIAMESECAT10Across9 Minor Yankee republican tackles foreign tonguesYOUNGSTER9Across10 Actress who played Sabrina Duncan in the TV series Charlie's AngelsKATEJACKSON11Across11 Unpleasantly suaveSMARMY6Across11 Criminal deeds in house belonging to priests repeatedly exposedVILLAINIES10Across11 Wife having gone to Orleans regularly visited sailorWREN4Across12 Tooth decayCARIES6Across13 A fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountainAVALANCHE9Across13 Riding styleSIDESADDLE10Across14 Item of clothing unconventional male displayed in a manner of speakingACCOUTREMENT12Across14 Department of southwestern France whose cities include LourdesHAUTESPYRENEES14Across14 Very large oval Indian diamond that has been part of the British crown jewels since 1849KOHINOOR8Across15 Another name for the papayaPAWPAW6Across16 DestinyFATE4Across18 A lot of credit for intersecting two curved shapes in parallelARCTICCIRCLE12Across18 MagnificentSPLENDID8Across19 1985 comedy-Western starring Tom Berenger as the cowboy Rex O'HerlihanRUSTLERSRHAPSODY16Across19 ShabbyTATTY5Across20 Redness of the skin caused by irritation or injury to the tissueERYTHEMA8Across21 Ordered wrong drugBADE4Across21 SnugCOSY4Across21 Sailors on course must find something to keep them movingEPSOMSALTS10Across22 German composer whose works include Der Rosenkavalier and SalomeRICHARDSTRAUSS14Across23 Doctor left enthralled by attempt to reach the other side showSEMBLANCE9Across25 American golfer whose two majors were the 1988 and 1989 US OpensCURTISSTRANGE13Across26 A busy day going round temples primarily to see their most sacred partsADYTA5Across26 Dead old stage performer lay exhaustedEXACTLY7Across27 President has fat philosopher castratedABELARD7Across28 Island in the Caribbean whose capital is BridgetownBARBADOS8Across29 Ammunition for cannons consisting of a canvas tube containing a cluster of small iron balls that scatter after firingGRAPESHOT9Across30 The aromatic Indian plant Nardostachys jatamans, which has rose-purple flowersSPIKENARD9Across32 European liliaceous plant with clusters of white or yellow flowersASPHODEL8Across34 The first James Bond film not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novelLICENCETOKILL13Across35 BBC TV show broadcast from 1975 to 1979 whose regular performers included the dancers New EditionSEASIDESPECIAL14Across38 Breakfast cereal manufactured by the Kellogg Company since 1956SPECIALK8Across41 1981 adventure film starring Harry Hamlin as PerseusCLASHOFTHETITANS16Across42 A royal crown, especially a light jewelled circletDIADEM6Across46 Ralph ___, British illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S ThompsonSTEADMAN8Across47 American pop band who had hits with The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) and Anything Goes in 1967HARPERSBIZARRE14Across49 The capital and largest town of the Faeroe IslandsTHORSHAVN9Across52 Character in EastEnders played by Elizabeth Kelly between 1993 and 2000NELLIEELLIS11Across53

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Flourish by the river after kicking the last ones outTHRIVE6Down1 A sea bird of the family StercorariidaeSKUA4Down1 QuartetFOURSOME8Down1 Juliet's cousin turned up by a lake with dry clothingTYBALT6Down2 A large, four-legged walking robot introduced in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes BackATAT4Down2 Equine mammalZEBRA5Down2 Relating to non-democratic rule, I coach girl to rebelOLIGARCHIC10Down3 A person who divines, especially by crystal gazingSCRYER6Down3 Barrier of shrubsHEDGE5Down3 PirateCORSAIR7Down4 Type of whiskey ingredientKEYIN5Down4 A person who values property for taxationASSESSOR8Down4 A method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire imageINTERLACING11Down5 ObservedSEEN4Down5 Wind towers use windsSOUWESTER9Down5 Ancient port in Israel founded by Herod the Great that was the capital of Roman PalestineCAESAREA8Down6 Freedom from dangerSAFETY6Down6 Topless operatic hero in swinging party?ORGY4Down6 See 18PETERPARKER11Down7 Most of the web initially enthralled prisonerINTERNEE8Down7 Goodness, that's no good for women's powerSTRENGTH8Down8 Canadian rock group whose biggest hit was You Ain't Seen Nothin' YetBACHMANTURNEROVERDRIVE22Down8 Any of the small drupes that make up the fruit of the blackberry, raspberry, etc.ACINUS6Down9 Roman emperor born Lucius Domitius AhenobarbusNERO4Down10 PeacefulnessSERENITY8Down10 AttireRAIMENT7Down12 1979 UK and US top ten hit single for Randy VanWarmerJUSTWHENINEEDEDYOUMOST22Down12 CribCRADLE6Down13 Army branch beer, say, is US propertyREALESTATE10Down13 Written compositionESSAY5Down15 Coy about admitting backing politically correct party to secure university tenureOCCUPANCY9Down15 Australian wild dogDINGO5Down16 Naked nurses kiss French novelistBARBUSSE8Down16 Unit of powerWATT4Down17 Georges ___, French composer whose works include film music for Passport to Pimlico and The Lavender Hill MobAURIC5Down17 A rebel with ambition to rise in the world of scholarshipACADEMIA8Down17 The teenage high school student whose alter ego is Spider-ManPETERPARKER11Down18 Chucked up some heavy Algerian liqueurGLAYVA6Down19 The first black Archbishop of Cape TownDESMONDTUTU11Down20 One has to get key?ISLAND6Down20 Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy, whose seven extant plays include the Oresteia trilogyAESCHYLUS9Down22 Greek character gets stood up two timesOMEGA5Down23 Plan to provide parking place in FrancePLOT4Down24 Collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce first published in 1914DUBLINERS9Down24 The capital of GuamAGANA5Down25 Musteline mammal also called a honey badgerRATEL5Down27 German city that is the leading administrative centre of the RuhrESSEN5Down28 Elizabeth ___, English author whose novels include Cranford, North and South and Wives and DaughtersGASKELL7Down30 The oldest of Alexandre Dumas's Three MusketeersATHOS5Down31 Of, relating to, or resembling a hawkACCIPITRINE11Down33 The third largest of the Balearic IslandsIBIZA5Down36 French city on the Deûle River, near France's border with BelgiumLILLE5Down37 2003 album by the White Stripes whose opening track is Seven Nation ArmyELEPHANT8Down39 Home of Rugby Union's ScarletsLLANELLI8Down40 Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness and welfare that can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbyeSHALOM6Down43 1974 single referencing The Wizard of Oz that was America's fourth top-ten hit in the USTINMAN6Down44 The yellow-and-black Eurasian finch Carduelis spinusSISKIN6Down45 See 20DESMONDTUTU11Down48 A bar or shaft on which a wheel revolvesAXLE4Down50 Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil PeartRUSH4Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 31, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.