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The Independent Crossword December 19 2024 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 55 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 19 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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Across

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Mean shade one must overlook101 AcrossReveal answer → Grasp51 AcrossReveal answer → Disease affecting the big toe44 AcrossReveal answer → Small device for recording fiddle46 AcrossReveal answer → Cordiality67 AcrossReveal answer → Plump68 AcrossReveal answer → Getting on with church, then one pint79 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive49 AcrossReveal answer → Rounded brimless hat810 AcrossReveal answer → Ample smear coats painter710 AcrossReveal answer → Confident1111 AcrossReveal answer → Conservative grey hairdo finally shaven flat, this heralds cooler times912 AcrossReveal answer → Watch bit of EastEnders after Red Dwarf?513 AcrossReveal answer → Bush Senior514 AcrossReveal answer → Imaginary814 AcrossReveal answer → Scrap divorcee joke, perhaps, after pushback?715 AcrossReveal answer → Culinary herb417 AcrossReveal answer → Great player, most are awful718 AcrossReveal answer → Direct source of meat519 AcrossReveal answer → Zodiac sign619 AcrossReveal answer → Small tower620 AcrossReveal answer → Church recess421 AcrossReveal answer → Throw bat in table-tennis when losing lead522 AcrossReveal answer → Dessert522 AcrossReveal answer → Wolves are top here and Ohio FC struggles923 AcrossReveal answer → Plug fitting over another's end724 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient vehicle lad almost brought to rave725 AcrossReveal answer → Agreed noodle dish blows away the starter426 AcrossReveal answer → Oh no, trustees being sued regularly given judgment1027 AcrossReveal answer →

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Special salad spinner81 DownReveal answer → Writing tablet51 DownReveal answer → Cream ran out of it72 DownReveal answer → Corrupt72 DownReveal answer → Support restriction on tough setter?133 DownReveal answer → Distinctive spirit53 DownReveal answer → International footballer last in coconut shy94 DownReveal answer → Thin porridge54 DownReveal answer → Heading off row, allowed youth in parliament55 DownReveal answer → Scold75 DownReveal answer → Surgeon's clothes66 DownReveal answer → My expert arrangement for the wedding party77 DownReveal answer → Bass-drinking fellow beginning to crave wine68 DownReveal answer → Basic seats on vacation unless flying this?1311 DownReveal answer → Radical reorganisation711 DownReveal answer → Matter612 DownReveal answer → Reticence713 DownReveal answer → Offence515 DownReveal answer → Trunk for higher-up coming around Channel Islands916 DownReveal answer → Sacred water lily516 DownReveal answer → Dark web gets savage on the fringes817 DownReveal answer → Consider leaving time to go between parties?718 DownReveal answer → Welcome518 DownReveal answer → The best story about getting high?720 DownReveal answer → What's above Americans? Roughly nothing621 DownReveal answer → Sacrifice of calf or goat523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, December 19, 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.