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The Independent Crossword December 14 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword December 14 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
One wearing a large decorative itemPEARL5Across1 Enquire intrusivelyPRY3Across4 Story mother noted down about a king and queenNARRATIVE9Across4 TransgressionSIN3Across5 Ship's floorsDECKS5Across6 A wrecked stateRUINS5Across8 Route north through Spain and Germany for hitchhiker?PASSENGER9Across9 DefensibleTENABLE7Across9 Church dignitaries and clergy members renouncing companyDEANS5Across10 DejectedDESPONDENT10Across10 Major prophet of Judah known as the 'weeping prophet'JEREMIAH8Across10 Scottish actor whose films include Trainspotting, The Full Monty and Angela's AshesROBERTCARLYLE13Across11 Balls bowled at pens close to farmhouse to get pig outOVEREAT7Across11 Ariel, languishing underwater at first, breaks free and bloomsRUELLIA7Across12 ImproveAMELIORATE10Across13 Certain pictures - Dune, Rocky, and, finally, KesNUDES5Across13 German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist whose best-known children's book is Emil and the DetectivesERICHKASTNER12Across14 The final opera by Richard StraussCAPRICCIO9Across15 Interested in taking good shots? You may want to get this dollyAUNTSALLY9Across15 American singer-songwriter and political activist best known for her songs Little Boxes and Morningtown RideMALVINAREYNOLDS15Across16 VeryAWFULLY7Across17 Fellow politician backed Number Ten, exercising constituentCOMPONENT9Across18 Salt solutionBRINE5Across18 In analytical psychology, an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego idealSHADOW6Across18 Johann David ___, Swiss pastor who wrote The Swiss Family RobinsonWYSS4Across19 Included among possessions - a bottle-opener, a wooden shoeSABOT5Across19 Drinking-tubeSTRAW5Across19 Month whose birthstone is the peridot or sardonyxAUGUST6Across20 Weeding toolHOE3Across20 Atoll in the Indian Ocean that is the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos ArchipelagoDIEGOGARCIA11Across21 Stiff examination of gold by Tim's sister?AUTOPSY7Across21 Specialised clothingKIT3Across21 Hot, one-dimensional bores wear distressed leatherRAWHIDE7Across24 Oil painting by Édouard Manet that caused shock and astonishment when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris SalonOLYMPIA7Across25 Spielberg's West Side Story is hackneyedSTALE5Across26 South American country whose capital is QuitoECUADOR7Across27 Disney film capturing hearts with animated tale that can be bittersweetCHOCOLATE9Across27 Tapes of actors wasting time on sofas, taking 8CASSETTES9Across28 Climbing palm of the genus Calamus whose tough stems are used for wickerwork and canesRATTAN6Across28 Determined boy conceals alienSETON5Across29 Roman ___, Czech athlete who won the decathlon gold medal at the 2004 OlympicsSEBRLE6Across29 Scottish actor whose films include The Flight of the Phoenix, Braveheart and Waking NedIANBANNEN9Across30 Another name for the goatsucker, from the harsh noise it makesJAROWL6Across32 Beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily that feeds on cropsWEEVIL6Across33 English band whose founder and only constant member was Mark E SmithTHEFALL7Across35 2005 animated film about a group of pigeons in World War IIVALIANT7Across37 English actor whose TV series include Casanova and Bouquet of Barbed WireFRANKFINLAY11Across38 Area of Oxford where Morris Motors was originally foundedCOWLEY6Across39 The soft fibrous tissue lining the inside of the rind in citrus fruitsPITH4Across40 A spongy substance made from certain fungi, used as tinder, in medicine to stop bleeding, and by anglers to dry off dry flies between castsAMADOU6Across41 English actress who played Catherine Howard in the 1970 BBC serial The Six Wives of Henry VIIIANGELAPLEASENCE15Across43 In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world, binding together earth, heaven and hell with its roots and branchesYGGDRASIL9Across45 Large fish of the family Carcharhinidae, characterised by a nictitating membrane and a heterocercal tailREQUIEMSHARK12Across46 In computing, a character or set of characters in an instruction that specifies the action that is to be performedOPERATIONCODE13Across48 Canadian TV series starring Paul Gross as an an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceDUESOUTH8Across49

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
The last UK top ten hit for Herman's Hermits, from 1970YEARSMAYCOMEYEARSMAYGO22Down1 ScepticCYNIC5Down1 Put my new food in buckets?POPCORN7Down1 City boss lifting a Hoover?AMSTERDAM9Down2 1997 Disney film based on Greek mythologyHERCULES8Down2 Foot partINSTEP6Down2 Pork pie supported by, say, upstanding lordLIEGE5Down3 Maincrop potato variety originally imported to the UK from France in 1850PINKFIRAPPLE12Down3 Contagious skin infectionSCABIES7Down3 Units in which electrical resistance is measuredOHMS4Down4 Awful vision of mounted crusader getting beheadedNIGHTMARE9Down4 Pig meatPORK4Down4 Novel by Mary Shelley subtitled The Modern PrometheusFRANKENSTEIN12Down5 In Predator, are rebels more difficult to find?RARER5Down5 Relation by marriageSISTERINLAW11Down5 Places he leaves hats?ADDRESSES9Down6 The king of the fairies in medieval folkloreOBERON6Down6 Furniture itemDININGTABLE11Down6 Afternoon napSIESTA6Down7 One regularly dispatching letters - nearly 50 altogetherINALL5Down7 Former Australian batsmen who has scored more runs than any other Australian opener who never scored an official Test match centuryBRUCELAIRD10Down7 John T ___, central figure in a 1925 trial related to the teaching of the theory of evolutionSCOPES6Down8 See good woman overcome by simple pleasureECSTASY7Down8 Another name for fructoseFRUITSUGAR10Down9 French portCALAIS6Down11 Popular houseplant with tough, sword-shaped leavesYUCCA5Down12 Carry outPERFORM7Down12 Phrase that entered popular usage after it was used by Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong during the Spycatcher trial in 1986ECONOMICALWITHTHETRUTH22Down13 BeatRHYTHM6Down14 One captivated by cow (mingling with sheep) that's the best in fieldSHOWPIECE9Down14 PervertedKINKY5Down15 Disreputable - no, dreadful - suitor stuck with ringNOTORIOUS9Down16 UndergarmentVEST4Down16 Large group of countries screening Universal Soldier and Grease?LUBRICANT9Down17 Country whose capital is KabulAFGHANISTAN11Down17 Children perhaps in charge - could this be Lord of the Flies?CLASSIC7Down18 James Bond character leaves remote-control device within that placeTHEREIN7Down20 Rushes from Snatch shown before the end of CannesTEARS5Down22 Football pundit who was assistant manager of the England team from 2012 to 2016GARYNEVILLE11Down22 City on North Island, New Zealand, noted for volcanic activityROTORUA7Down23 Rising river covering top half of chap's boatYACHT5Down23 The largest island of the Netherlands AntillesCURACAO7Down24 Hong Kong film-maker and director with small golf clubsWOODS5Down25 The capital of ArmeniaYEREVAN7Down26 Brazilian Formula One driver who was world champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987NELSONPIQUET12Down31 Former Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers and Trinidad and Tobago defender killed in a car crash in 2018JLLOYDSAMUEL12Down32 Home ground of Queens Park RangersLOFTUSROAD10Down34 Epic 1847 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow subtitled A Tale of AcadieEVANGELINE10Down36 A circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, used since 609 AD as a Christian churchPANTHEON8Down40 Lucas ___, French international left-back who joined Aston Villa from Everton in 2022DIGNE5Down42 The state capital of TexasAUSTIN6Down43 A small strip or cube of pork fatLARDON6Down44 Minor prophet in the Books of Chronicles who composed a history of King RehoboamIDDO4Down47

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, December 14, 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.