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The Independent Crossword December 7 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 7 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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Game birds131 AcrossReveal answer → Marine mollusc51 AcrossReveal answer → Drone34 AcrossReveal answer → Confuse87 AcrossReveal answer → Speed, beginning to pass point of no return48 AcrossReveal answer → Immense48 AcrossReveal answer → Roll joint, getting one blown away109 AcrossReveal answer → Of short duration109 AcrossReveal answer → I hate this way south for hikes610 AcrossReveal answer → Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girl1011 AcrossReveal answer → Nut611 AcrossReveal answer → King Lear's mad, holding heartless test to reveal snakes811 AcrossReveal answer → Bush changed history in foreign affairs, primarily912 AcrossReveal answer → 1983 single by Joan Armatrading that was her only US hit1212 AcrossReveal answer → Shooting star613 AcrossReveal answer → Survey that is collected by car manufacturer414 AcrossReveal answer → A street in Jerusalem believed to be the path that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion1114 AcrossReveal answer → 2024 Gary Dauberman film based on a 1975 novel by Stephen King915 AcrossReveal answer → Source of fake news about protest415 AcrossReveal answer → American dessert1015 AcrossReveal answer → Mediterranean plant whose young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads616 AcrossReveal answer → 100 daguerreotypes? They're cool916 AcrossReveal answer → 2015 sequel to the Rocky film series featuring Tony Bellew517 AcrossReveal answer → The highest voice in a barbershop quartet518 AcrossReveal answer → Maori war chant419 AcrossReveal answer → Chesspiece also called a castle419 AcrossReveal answer → 1990s BBC drama series whose cast includes Jack Davenport, Amita Dhiri and Andrew Lincoln820 AcrossReveal answer → Made a priest820 AcrossReveal answer → Time soon mends feelings820 AcrossReveal answer → Newt (Archaic)321 AcrossReveal answer → More than one way to prepare a tomato621 AcrossReveal answer → Requirements522 AcrossReveal answer → Jana ___, Czech tennis player who won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998722 AcrossReveal answer → Old gangster turned into evil political icon1023 AcrossReveal answer → John Travolta's beginning to get sack424 AcrossReveal answer → The largest of the Channel Islands624 AcrossReveal answer → Penalty in back of the net has decent shot1325 AcrossReveal answer → Rashid ___, former wicket keeper who captained Pakistan in 2003525 AcrossReveal answer → Giacomo ___, German composer of operas such as Robert le diable and Les Huguenots927 AcrossReveal answer → Character created by Enid Blyton in 1949530 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of flowering plants also known as woodruff831 AcrossReveal answer → State of NE India with the heaviest rainfall in the world532 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of Michael Lee Aday833 AcrossReveal answer → Former name for a Number 3 wood in golf535 AcrossReveal answer → 1988 film by John Waters which formed the basis of a musical that became a film in 2007936 AcrossReveal answer → 1981 hit single and album by Altered Images1337 AcrossReveal answer → Russian newspaper first published in 1912 whose name means 'truth'638 AcrossReveal answer → Brand name for the Post Office's Viewdata technology developed during the late 1970s739 AcrossReveal answer → See 371341 AcrossReveal answer → Cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica oleracea acephala, with crinkled leaves443 AcrossReveal answer → In weightlifting, a lift in which the weight is raised to shoulder level and then above the head544 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh county created in 1972 from the administrative counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire546 AcrossReveal answer → A form of Christian service used for each of a group of occasions647 AcrossReveal answer → A course of hors d'oeuvres in an Italian meal948 AcrossReveal answer → Former full back who managed Luton Town and Sheffield United in the 1970s1150 AcrossReveal answer → Creeping or trailing plant of tropical America such as Tradescantia fluminensis or Zebrina pendula1251 AcrossReveal answer → A range of chalk hills that extends from the Itchen Valley in Hampshire to Beachy Head in East Sussex1052 AcrossReveal answer →

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Songbird81 DownReveal answer → British range that includes Windy Gyle, Bloodybush Edge and Carlin Tooth121 DownReveal answer → Spinner's round pitch, backing up71 DownReveal answer → Eats cold cuts52 DownReveal answer → American actress whose films include American Hustle, Big Eyes and Arrival82 DownReveal answer → Tombstone inscription72 DownReveal answer → Ta-da! All the information's here73 DownReveal answer → Donkey in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A A Milne63 DownReveal answer → Prestige53 DownReveal answer → Hang around54 DownReveal answer → The Gay ___, 1934 American musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers84 DownReveal answer → No matter what half of all comedies raised, normal show is next154 DownReveal answer → On reflection, love story ending in wedding is sweet65 DownReveal answer → The majority45 DownReveal answer → 2004 film starring Jon Heder in the title role165 DownReveal answer → For the time being (Latin)66 DownReveal answer → Men fine with one article by Blair?96 DownReveal answer → King of England who defeated Henry VI in the Wars of the "28 Down"86 DownReveal answer → Academic reported on EastEnders for cover of Spectator77 DownReveal answer → English county whose administrative centre is Dorchester67 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a maiden who agreed to marry any man who could defeat her in a running race88 DownReveal answer → British cartoonist who created The Cloggies and The Fosdyke Saga89 DownReveal answer → Bernard ___, officer who successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein1010 DownReveal answer → Of no fixed abode810 DownReveal answer → Hit hard (Informal)612 DownReveal answer → Patchwork elephant in a series of children's books by David McKee513 DownReveal answer → Scrap Conservative implicated in crime — everyone's upset with it913 DownReveal answer → Cut of beef714 DownReveal answer → Shed drove me nuts715 DownReveal answer → Precise516 DownReveal answer → Democrat's launched opposition717 DownReveal answer → Cricket fielding position517 DownReveal answer → Design colour that's largely relabelled?718 DownReveal answer → Noblewoman418 DownReveal answer → One rubbing husband, a halfwit, up the wrong way619 DownReveal answer → Former Republic of Ireland footballer who was renowned for his long throws919 DownReveal answer → Highly contagious viral disease also called grippe921 DownReveal answer → Stocking filler for horny loners522 DownReveal answer → 1985 John Boorman film set in the Brazilian Rainforest1623 DownReveal answer → English actress, author and entrepreneur who got engaged to Paul McCartney in 1967924 DownReveal answer → Paris museum that opened on 10 August 1793926 DownReveal answer → Irish county whose county town is Navan527 DownReveal answer → See 441028 DownReveal answer → Card game based on collecting sets and sequences529 DownReveal answer → Shania Twain's first crossover hit which also won Single of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards in 19951234 DownReveal answer → The most virtuous knight of the Round Table1035 DownReveal answer → Long-tailed gallinaceous bird of the family Phasianidae839 DownReveal answer → Pioneer of American modern dance knighted by the King of Denmark for his work with the Royal Danish Ballet840 DownReveal answer → Influential American blues guitarist and singer who was a member of Muddy Waters' band in the 1960s841 DownReveal answer → 2015 musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda842 DownReveal answer → Marie Osmond single that got to number two in the UK in 19731044 DownReveal answer → The capital of (the Former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia645 DownReveal answer → A Latin-American ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements647 DownReveal answer → See 9849 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, December 7, 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.