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The Independent Crossword December 12 2024 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 55 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 12 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
Compelling chap to eat rice crackers81 AcrossReveal answer → Three, in cards41 AcrossReveal answer → Leg joints54 AcrossReveal answer → Young father's letter to Grecian66 AcrossReveal answer → Clothes cupboard88 AcrossReveal answer → Bird disease restricts rook69 AcrossReveal answer → Crustacean49 AcrossReveal answer → Progress710 AcrossReveal answer → Publican lying about payment to host organised rave810 AcrossReveal answer → Journalist ringing alien is cut off911 AcrossReveal answer → Umbilicus512 AcrossReveal answer → Family doctor on TV513 AcrossReveal answer → Vigorous914 AcrossReveal answer → Build up A-Team in speech615 AcrossReveal answer → Tea inspiring memory for quality of colour617 AcrossReveal answer → Very keen517 AcrossReveal answer → Both sides in dispute right to show anger618 AcrossReveal answer → Refer to718 AcrossReveal answer → Band from way back - nemesis of Pan's People?619 AcrossReveal answer → Small car420 AcrossReveal answer → Colour821 AcrossReveal answer → Chasing some secret fantasies in retirement521 AcrossReveal answer → Tailors struggling with the belly of Neil Diamond922 AcrossReveal answer → Taut523 AcrossReveal answer → Noblewoman424 AcrossReveal answer → Weapons fail to hit Martinique and Guadeloupe?825 AcrossReveal answer → Over in Big Bash final for Mitch Marsh626 AcrossReveal answer → Marvin was one disheartened android in programme628 AcrossReveal answer → Boy, she's playing with the heart of Peter Sellers829 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Stick32 DownReveal answer → Social media company invested in O2 stock32 DownReveal answer → Body of freeholders83 DownReveal answer → Maybe Trent Alexander-Arnold finally leaving club53 DownReveal answer → Boat part44 DownReveal answer → Nick Knowles ultimately accepting 3 contracts104 DownReveal answer → English supporter infiltrating empty stadium gets respect65 DownReveal answer → Christian sacrament95 DownReveal answer → Last golf tour on Earth46 DownReveal answer → Frightened66 DownReveal answer → Fill up tyre on VW traveller97 DownReveal answer → Chairman's hammer57 DownReveal answer → Animal could be Cat in the Hat?118 DownReveal answer → Yellow-flowered weed911 DownReveal answer → No.10 is hot and cold1112 DownReveal answer → Curative813 DownReveal answer → Perhaps the mat for the cat is the place to be?1014 DownReveal answer → Lasso615 DownReveal answer → Talked about poetry in digital format916 DownReveal answer → Small flock of partridge516 DownReveal answer → Woodwind instrument419 DownReveal answer → She's mad about men and animals620 DownReveal answer → Young goat322 DownReveal answer → Love for Charlie in series of letters home523 DownReveal answer → Late fruit picked up424 DownReveal answer → Make fun of bloke327 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, December 12, 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.