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The Independent Crossword August 8 2024 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 55 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 8 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Culinary herb51 AcrossReveal answer → Skilful answer, right?61 AcrossReveal answer → Absence of war54 AcrossReveal answer → Go over the limit, regularly being first to rant aboard bus85 AcrossReveal answer → Well-liked78 AcrossReveal answer → Fold59 AcrossReveal answer → Urgency shown by media certain to lose face89 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh dog510 AcrossReveal answer → Fancy -- exhausted Romeo gets firm twice!610 AcrossReveal answer → Busy MEP, strong but no Liberal, able to share feelings1011 AcrossReveal answer → Out of control711 AcrossReveal answer → Possibly lead away from front and elsewhere412 AcrossReveal answer → Fragrant shrub1113 AcrossReveal answer → Again, finance house primarily converts monetary unit713 AcrossReveal answer → This offers digital access to other functions on board615 AcrossReveal answer → Slim717 AcrossReveal answer → Painfully cold beer617 AcrossReveal answer → Redesign bridleways after ignoring clear local rules718 AcrossReveal answer → Love deeply519 AcrossReveal answer → Negative push Hugh ignored intermittently419 AcrossReveal answer → Sea duck520 AcrossReveal answer → Train hard by river where transport was kept?1021 AcrossReveal answer → Chirp722 AcrossReveal answer → Glasses (Informal)523 AcrossReveal answer → Radiation in live broadcast affected actor624 AcrossReveal answer → Small coin524 AcrossReveal answer → Our kid, at first wavering, recognised American filmmaker825 AcrossReveal answer → Introduction of lending rate changed fixed transfer system826 AcrossReveal answer → Second cross held in palm maybe about to protrude627 AcrossReveal answer →

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Barrel containing not quite the last bit of bulgur wheat52 DownReveal answer → Deliberate exaggeration92 DownReveal answer → Attack official UK statisticians, chuckling with no sign of hesitation93 DownReveal answer → Feeling of unease73 DownReveal answer → Suffering loss of first husband, however unlucky54 DownReveal answer → Young dog54 DownReveal answer → Domestic appliance for keeping kippers warm155 DownReveal answer → Grow old35 DownReveal answer → Rail caught, breaking my new tool96 DownReveal answer → High regard66 DownReveal answer → Former university cuts, not a moment too soon57 DownReveal answer → Arrange117 DownReveal answer → Cancels my reordered plants98 DownReveal answer → Speed48 DownReveal answer → Illegally-obtained912 DownReveal answer → Extremely anaemic hideous canned music913 DownReveal answer → Poison714 DownReveal answer → Pilots and navigators perhaps packing small items for flight?914 DownReveal answer → Valuable things615 DownReveal answer → Expensive416 DownReveal answer → Northumbrian village given new frontage for shops916 DownReveal answer → Pub game518 DownReveal answer → One who keeps razors uncovered520 DownReveal answer → Owing321 DownReveal answer → Hack, for one, runs in tights522 DownReveal answer → Water carrier underneath opening of storm drain523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, August 8, 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.