The Independent Crossword December 27 2024 Answers

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Below are all the The Independent Crossword December 27 2024 answers. The Friday puzzle has 57 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#

StopCEASE5Across1 Metal spike for fasteningNAIL4Across4 ShiverTREMBLE7Across8 Cuban danceRUMBA5Across9 Places to go and feel bad about America allowing free movement of paperwork?LOOSELEAF9Across9 SurpassOUTDO5Across10 Put down lines quite rejecting it at firstQUELL5Across10 French coast is setting for new story from FranceCONTE5Across11 BreastboneSTERNUM7Across11 DebasedADULTERATED11Across12 Islander’s home, protected by some munitionGRENADINE9Across12 Had effect around hard marine rock again and again?THREEFOLD9Across13 Bad lie mostly broadcast without forethoughtADLIB5Across14 DubiousSUSPECT7Across16 Witch’s trick eliminating KnightHAG3Across16 Employee prepared to accommodate right vehicleSERVANT7Across18 Zodiac signLIBRA5Across18 CognisantAWARE5Across20 Agreed terms in very strange businessYES3Across20 TrampVAGRANT7Across21 Choice of clothes, perhaps Northern in fashionRANGE5Across21 QuarryPREY4Across22 Prison Board offering something for those flying the coop?BIRDTABLE9Across22 Palm tree fruitDATES5Across23 Small point linked to best performer’s nominated victimSCAPEGOAT9Across25 Settle some time to be invaded by soldiersAGREE5Across26 Turned up over small part in film?CAMEO5Across27 One offering choice words misrepresented large noseSLOGANEER9Across28

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Natural fibreCOTTON6Down1 Bird leaflet containing concealed problemFLYCATCHER10Down1 SkilledADEPT5Down2 Control part of soccer pitchCORNER6Down2 InvolveEMBROIL7Down3 Photographer’s problem regarding colour requiring electronic inputREDEYE6Down3 CourageNERVE5Down4 Margaret carrying one black French item for the boudoirPEIGNOIR8Down4 Upset originating from daughter going round marshOFFEND6Down5 MassiveIMMENSE7Down5 Swimmer with gold, clothed by a fashion designerAQUANAUT8Down6 ViewpointPERSPECTIVE11Down6 I join in pursuit of information with good humourGENIALLY8Down7 TranquilCALM4Down7 Stick getting a bit of tension out of muscleGLUE4Down8 Lose hopeDESPAIR7Down13 ClaimedALLEGED7Down14 Spiny plantCACTUS6Down15 Hunting dog mostly misjudged in island capitalBASSETERRE10Down15 HitchSNAG4Down16 FoeENEMY5Down17 Crooked German, covering Germany, meeting English policeman from elsewhereGENDARME8Down17 Australian abandoning cause to reveal frameworkSKELETON8Down18 Bubbling’s dodgy in aortaeAERATION8Down19 BragBOAST5Down19 Pass time in bookshop, adding energy to book argumentsBROWSE6Down22 Label put around each botanist’s initial collection of leavesTEABAG6Down23 Tavern with relative amount of beerBARREL6Down24 Hard to avoid surprise blowSOCK4Down25

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, December 27, 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.