The Independent Crossword December 14 2024 Answers

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Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 14 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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One wearing a large decorative item51 AcrossReveal answer → Enquire intrusively34 AcrossReveal answer → Story mother noted down about a king and queen94 AcrossReveal answer → Transgression35 AcrossReveal answer → Ship's floors56 AcrossReveal answer → A wrecked state58 AcrossReveal answer → Route north through Spain and Germany for hitchhiker?99 AcrossReveal answer → Defensible79 AcrossReveal answer → Church dignitaries and clergy members renouncing company510 AcrossReveal answer → Dejected1010 AcrossReveal answer → Major prophet of Judah known as the 'weeping prophet'810 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish actor whose films include Trainspotting, The Full Monty and Angela's Ashes1311 AcrossReveal answer → Balls bowled at pens close to farmhouse to get pig out711 AcrossReveal answer → Ariel, languishing underwater at first, breaks free and blooms712 AcrossReveal answer → Improve1013 AcrossReveal answer → Certain pictures - Dune, Rocky, and, finally, Kes513 AcrossReveal answer → German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist whose best-known children's book is Emil and the Detectives1214 AcrossReveal answer → The final opera by Richard Strauss915 AcrossReveal answer → Interested in taking good shots? You may want to get this dolly915 AcrossReveal answer → American singer-songwriter and political activist best known for her songs Little Boxes and Morningtown Ride1516 AcrossReveal answer → Very717 AcrossReveal answer → Fellow politician backed Number Ten, exercising constituent918 AcrossReveal answer → Salt solution518 AcrossReveal answer → In analytical psychology, an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal618 AcrossReveal answer → Johann David ___, Swiss pastor who wrote The Swiss Family Robinson419 AcrossReveal answer → Included among possessions - a bottle-opener, a wooden shoe519 AcrossReveal answer → Drinking-tube519 AcrossReveal answer → Month whose birthstone is the peridot or sardonyx620 AcrossReveal answer → Weeding tool320 AcrossReveal answer → Atoll in the Indian Ocean that is the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago1121 AcrossReveal answer → Stiff examination of gold by Tim's sister?721 AcrossReveal answer → Specialised clothing321 AcrossReveal answer → Hot, one-dimensional bores wear distressed leather724 AcrossReveal answer → Oil painting by Édouard Manet that caused shock and astonishment when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon725 AcrossReveal answer → Spielberg's West Side Story is hackneyed526 AcrossReveal answer → South American country whose capital is Quito727 AcrossReveal answer → Disney film capturing hearts with animated tale that can be bittersweet927 AcrossReveal answer → Tapes of actors wasting time on sofas, taking 8928 AcrossReveal answer → Climbing palm of the genus Calamus whose tough stems are used for wickerwork and canes628 AcrossReveal answer → Determined boy conceals alien529 AcrossReveal answer → Roman ___, Czech athlete who won the decathlon gold medal at the 2004 Olympics629 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish actor whose films include The Flight of the Phoenix, Braveheart and Waking Ned930 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the goatsucker, from the harsh noise it makes632 AcrossReveal answer → Beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily that feeds on crops633 AcrossReveal answer → English band whose founder and only constant member was Mark E Smith735 AcrossReveal answer → 2005 animated film about a group of pigeons in World War II737 AcrossReveal answer → English actor whose TV series include Casanova and Bouquet of Barbed Wire1138 AcrossReveal answer → Area of Oxford where Morris Motors was originally founded639 AcrossReveal answer → The soft fibrous tissue lining the inside of the rind in citrus fruits440 AcrossReveal answer → A spongy substance made from certain fungi, used as tinder, in medicine to stop bleeding, and by anglers to dry off dry flies between casts641 AcrossReveal answer → English actress who played Catherine Howard in the 1970 BBC serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII1543 AcrossReveal answer → In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world, binding together earth, heaven and hell with its roots and branches945 AcrossReveal answer → Large fish of the family Carcharhinidae, characterised by a nictitating membrane and a heterocercal tail1246 AcrossReveal answer → In computing, a character or set of characters in an instruction that specifies the action that is to be performed1348 AcrossReveal answer → Canadian TV series starring Paul Gross as an an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police849 AcrossReveal answer →

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The last UK top ten hit for Herman's Hermits, from 1970221 DownReveal answer → Sceptic51 DownReveal answer → Put my new food in buckets?71 DownReveal answer → City boss lifting a Hoover?92 DownReveal answer → 1997 Disney film based on Greek mythology82 DownReveal answer → Foot part62 DownReveal answer → Pork pie supported by, say, upstanding lord53 DownReveal answer → Maincrop potato variety originally imported to the UK from France in 1850123 DownReveal answer → Contagious skin infection73 DownReveal answer → Units in which electrical resistance is measured44 DownReveal answer → Awful vision of mounted crusader getting beheaded94 DownReveal answer → Pig meat44 DownReveal answer → Novel by Mary Shelley subtitled The Modern Prometheus125 DownReveal answer → In Predator, are rebels more difficult to find?55 DownReveal answer → Relation by marriage115 DownReveal answer → Places he leaves hats?96 DownReveal answer → The king of the fairies in medieval folklore66 DownReveal answer → Furniture item116 DownReveal answer → Afternoon nap67 DownReveal answer → One regularly dispatching letters - nearly 50 altogether57 DownReveal answer → Former Australian batsmen who has scored more runs than any other Australian opener who never scored an official Test match century107 DownReveal answer → John T ___, central figure in a 1925 trial related to the teaching of the theory of evolution68 DownReveal answer → See good woman overcome by simple pleasure78 DownReveal answer → Another name for fructose109 DownReveal answer → French port611 DownReveal answer → Popular houseplant with tough, sword-shaped leaves512 DownReveal answer → Carry out712 DownReveal answer → Phrase that entered popular usage after it was used by Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong during the Spycatcher trial in 19862213 DownReveal answer → Beat614 DownReveal answer → One captivated by cow (mingling with sheep) that's the best in field914 DownReveal answer → Perverted515 DownReveal answer → Disreputable - no, dreadful - suitor stuck with ring916 DownReveal answer → Undergarment416 DownReveal answer → Large group of countries screening Universal Soldier and Grease?917 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Kabul1117 DownReveal answer → Children perhaps in charge - could this be Lord of the Flies?718 DownReveal answer → James Bond character leaves remote-control device within that place720 DownReveal answer → Rushes from Snatch shown before the end of Cannes522 DownReveal answer → Football pundit who was assistant manager of the England team from 2012 to 20161122 DownReveal answer → City on North Island, New Zealand, noted for volcanic activity723 DownReveal answer → Rising river covering top half of chap's boat523 DownReveal answer → The largest island of the Netherlands Antilles724 DownReveal answer → Hong Kong film-maker and director with small golf clubs525 DownReveal answer → The capital of Armenia726 DownReveal answer → Brazilian Formula One driver who was world champion in 1981, 1983 and 19871231 DownReveal answer → Former Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers and Trinidad and Tobago defender killed in a car crash in 20181232 DownReveal answer → Home ground of Queens Park Rangers1034 DownReveal answer → Epic 1847 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow subtitled A Tale of Acadie1036 DownReveal answer → A circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, used since 609 AD as a Christian church840 DownReveal answer → Lucas ___, French international left-back who joined Aston Villa from Everton in 2022542 DownReveal answer → The state capital of Texas643 DownReveal answer → A small strip or cube of pork fat644 DownReveal answer → Minor prophet in the Books of Chronicles who composed a history of King Rehoboam447 DownReveal answer →

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