The Independent Crossword December 21 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 21 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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Forbidden61 AcrossReveal answer → Stony-faced companion's short and unusually shirty with me in study141 AcrossReveal answer → German songs65 AcrossReveal answer → 1960 comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, partly inspired by a book of the same name by Jean Kerr238 AcrossReveal answer → Savage88 AcrossReveal answer → Proper retreat soldier backed put in place again99 AcrossReveal answer → Old49 AcrossReveal answer → Penny-pinching1210 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit spread on the turn, if not rank510 AcrossReveal answer → Initially nervous youngster lays off newer material511 AcrossReveal answer → Wheel shaft412 AcrossReveal answer → Rude expression mugs rival off912 AcrossReveal answer → Ace newspaper putting colour back into pieces713 AcrossReveal answer → Until 1917, emperor of Russia413 AcrossReveal answer → Fragrant resin obtained from tropical trees, such as those of the family Burseraceae514 AcrossReveal answer → Applaud414 AcrossReveal answer → Control animal that's kicking its hindquarters415 AcrossReveal answer → English actor who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films1115 AcrossReveal answer → American actor whose films include Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and The Piano1216 AcrossReveal answer → Matchless1217 AcrossReveal answer → Australian duo who had a 1980 hit with All Out of Love917 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Shakira, subtitled This Time for Africa, that was the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup818 AcrossReveal answer → War film that's hardly The Caine Mutiny418 AcrossReveal answer → American folk singer, songwriter, musician and political activist whose middle name is Chandos819 AcrossReveal answer → Lower part of an interior wall419 AcrossReveal answer → Brother performing with church beginning to improvise organ passages720 AcrossReveal answer → Impartial820 AcrossReveal answer → Former Chief Design Officer at Apple Inc who became chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London in 20171121 AcrossReveal answer → Feel great sorrow622 AcrossReveal answer → Horizontal beam623 AcrossReveal answer → Drew Daliesque works923 AcrossReveal answer → Language from party putting off both sides524 AcrossReveal answer → Terms of endless promise taking lead from Catch 22525 AcrossReveal answer → Criminal left another one to the auditor926 AcrossReveal answer → See 18826 AcrossReveal answer → Someone promising better service and reception when you sign new contract1427 AcrossReveal answer → Protagonist in the Matrix film series, played by Keanu Reeves328 AcrossReveal answer → Best actor Oscar-winner for Kramer vs Kramer and Rain Man1329 AcrossReveal answer → County known as "The Garden of England"431 AcrossReveal answer → American actress and former fashion model who played the title character in the TV series Murphy Brown1333 AcrossReveal answer → 1987 film starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss434 AcrossReveal answer → 1980 Bruce Beresford film about a court martial starring Edward Woodward in the title role1335 AcrossReveal answer → See 211136 AcrossReveal answer → The god of mischief and destruction in Norse mythology437 AcrossReveal answer → ITV docusoap that ran from 2001 to 2004, set on Rhodes and later Gran Canaria838 AcrossReveal answer → See 421240 AcrossReveal answer → English author whose first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year1242 AcrossReveal answer → Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen945 AcrossReveal answer → 2008 Katy Perry single that topped the US chart for seven consecutive weeks1247 AcrossReveal answer → Charles Dickens novel subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress1150 AcrossReveal answer → Any of the separate parts of the calyx of a flower551 AcrossReveal answer → Industrial town in the Pas de Calais department badly damaged in both World Wars452 AcrossReveal answer → 2001 book by J K Rowling, credited to Kennilworthy Whisp, published to raise money for Comic Relief2353 AcrossReveal answer →

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Carer's right: characters in shop aren't all eavesdropping131 DownReveal answer → Opera by Giuseppe Verdi originally titled Violetta, after the main character101 DownReveal answer → Something toxic seen when peeling layers from lethal onion?82 DownReveal answer → The umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable62 DownReveal answer → Archetype62 DownReveal answer → Bunch of stars addicted to drinking port53 DownReveal answer → Animated hero, created by Elzie Segar, who first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre in 192963 DownReveal answer → Gist33 DownReveal answer → Dynasty that ruled empire in the past74 DownReveal answer → The capital of The Gambia64 DownReveal answer → Variety of wheat54 DownReveal answer → Someone interfering with fruit tree called out75 DownReveal answer → Chile's first president165 DownReveal answer → Terse75 DownReveal answer → Detailed96 DownReveal answer → Agreeable writer's drawn into quarrel with name-dropping star96 DownReveal answer → Very low brass instrument pitched in F or E-flat86 DownReveal answer → Nevertheless67 DownReveal answer → The largest of the Channel Islands67 DownReveal answer → After a break, come back to answer67 DownReveal answer → Democratic leader recalled some secret sin: "I'm emir", perhaps?138 DownReveal answer → Common name for a famous opera house in Milan79 DownReveal answer → Type of washing machine that briefly became very popular in the 1960s710 DownReveal answer → Abel ___, Dutch navigator whose discoveries include New Zealand and the Tonga and Fiji Islands611 DownReveal answer → Wind instrument911 DownReveal answer → See 431212 DownReveal answer → Along the way (French)713 DownReveal answer → Private area perfect for Spooner?914 DownReveal answer → Live-in family helper (French)615 DownReveal answer → Meter reading conducted by gutless salesman is a con, sadly816 DownReveal answer → Harsh616 DownReveal answer → See 81317 DownReveal answer → Defame518 DownReveal answer → Leoš ___, Czech composer whose works include a Glagolitic Mass first performed in 1927719 DownReveal answer → Greek character's climbing tower, close to exhaustion719 DownReveal answer → Long-running Australian TV drama series that has featured appearances by Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette, Baz Luhrmann and Bob Hawke1620 DownReveal answer → Rapid bot extremely confused, making for horrible user experience720 DownReveal answer → Radio 1 DJ who presented Junior Choice for 12 years921 DownReveal answer → See 11321 DownReveal answer → Bristle on a cereal plant321 DownReveal answer → Spy chief regularly highlighted our so-called clout622 DownReveal answer → Rag'n'Bone Man song that won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year in 2018523 DownReveal answer → An isolated mountain peak above a surface of ice or snow724 DownReveal answer → Cackling individual feeding urge to laugh524 DownReveal answer → The heaviest surviving land animal in Europe, also known as the European bison625 DownReveal answer → An obsolete type of retort used for distillation727 DownReveal answer → The smaller and outermost of Mars's two natural satellites629 DownReveal answer → Dame Margot ___, English ballerina born Margaret Hookham730 DownReveal answer → The fourth largest city in South Korea, after Seoul, Busan and Incheon532 DownReveal answer → Body of water in the lower Hudson River basin located in Carmel Hamlet, New York1037 DownReveal answer → The first linebacker to win the Super Bowl MVP Award on the winning Super Bowl team839 DownReveal answer → Ion ___, President of Romania from 1989 to 1996, and from 2000 to 2004741 DownReveal answer → English actor whose films include The Collector, Far From The Madding Crowd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert1243 DownReveal answer → Lleyton ___, Australian tennis player who won the 2002 Wimbledon men's singles title644 DownReveal answer → A small parachute released behind a jet aircraft to reduce its landing speed645 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a nymph dwelling in a lake, river, spring or fountain546 DownReveal answer → The approximate US and Canadian equivalent of a British houseman647 DownReveal answer → A 6th century BC Greek lyric poetess of Lesbos648 DownReveal answer → Ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, site of an oracle649 DownReveal answer →

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