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The Independent Crossword December 16 2024 Answers

Monday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 16 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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Police unit will be involved in action for certain71 AcrossReveal answer → Beast of burden31 AcrossReveal answer → Beer33 AcrossReveal answer → Religious basket case?55 AcrossReveal answer → Terribly solemn pair might be frigid108 AcrossReveal answer → Dependable78 AcrossReveal answer → Dizzy59 AcrossReveal answer → Hoskins must tuck into a shot for a fee49 AcrossReveal answer → Company emblem410 AcrossReveal answer → One who purposely wrecks boat sure must change810 AcrossReveal answer → Well-being711 AcrossReveal answer → Flips out, inhaling fourth of puffs from this?612 AcrossReveal answer → American husband hugged by short relative is a dish513 AcrossReveal answer → Important1113 AcrossReveal answer → Gloomy and down about female being beastly!815 AcrossReveal answer → Finery715 AcrossReveal answer → Playthings416 AcrossReveal answer → Returned mutt with odd flaw that's bitten you? Terrible!817 AcrossReveal answer → Desert plants518 AcrossReveal answer → Those starting on good religious evangelists seem monsters519 AcrossReveal answer → Protection720 AcrossReveal answer → Old Republican leader with inflated self-worth ultimately in state621 AcrossReveal answer → Lad321 AcrossReveal answer → Mischievous sprite322 AcrossReveal answer → Liqueur excessive queen and a mother knocked back823 AcrossReveal answer → Bolt double? That's what one might be aiming for!425 AcrossReveal answer → Make neat gin hatter will mix with drop of soda1026 AcrossReveal answer → Operative retreating around soldiers in battle528 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps pine to get to end of a popular racecourse729 AcrossReveal answer →

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Too41 DownReveal answer → Beer with dirt tossed on top is well stupid71 DownReveal answer → Flavouring92 DownReveal answer → Socialist that's firm about statement of principles52 DownReveal answer → Pure and lovely73 DownReveal answer → Insult 51 in complaint is 'an inability to accept the truth'93 DownReveal answer → Oxbridge professor is a gentleman from Spain34 DownReveal answer → Last section34 DownReveal answer → Maiden getting beers for blokes55 DownReveal answer → Reverse the effects of45 DownReveal answer → One who'd accept everything was well or fantastic96 DownReveal answer → Simple vote116 DownReveal answer → Sort47 DownReveal answer → Enough drink to get drunk is wrong in God's eyes, king held77 DownReveal answer → Special gear and excellent beer from the rear711 DownReveal answer → Irritation912 DownReveal answer → Totally demolish small Snickers?914 DownReveal answer → Cancel out714 DownReveal answer → Boulder415 DownReveal answer → Online career for life in induction916 DownReveal answer → Petty quarrel416 DownReveal answer → Plant part417 DownReveal answer → Your lad cycling as the Virgin Mary718 DownReveal answer → Round loaf of bread319 DownReveal answer → Drunk now and you can't do anything about it!720 DownReveal answer → Ultimate of owl-haters in People Against Hooters522 DownReveal answer → Old head of state will cuddle tense man? Heavens!524 DownReveal answer → Coastal inlet found in Cagliari area327 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, December 16, 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.