The Independent Crossword February 21 2026 Answers

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Below are all 120 clues from the The Independent Crossword for February 21 2026. 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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Henry discovered fortune-telling method, making money91 AcrossReveal answer → Was dressed in41 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish lake43 AcrossReveal answer → Did live broadcast generate buzz?56 AcrossReveal answer → Building design127 AcrossReveal answer → Conjecture58 AcrossReveal answer → Do OK as intern79 AcrossReveal answer → Destructive79 AcrossReveal answer → In league with French, one provided bomb710 AcrossReveal answer → The 16th president of the United States of America1411 AcrossReveal answer → Evaluate611 AcrossReveal answer → Slow-burning biomass ultimately crumbling to dust1111 AcrossReveal answer → Raincoats reportedly greatest value312 AcrossReveal answer → Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war813 AcrossReveal answer → Mendicant613 AcrossReveal answer → I mark zero incorrect in pile of papers513 AcrossReveal answer → Element of the halogen group whose atomic number is 53614 AcrossReveal answer → Plantation area run well by corporation915 AcrossReveal answer → Actor best known for playing Neil in the TV series The Young Ones1115 AcrossReveal answer → The plant Verbascum thapsus, that has woolly leaves and tall erect spikes of yellow flowers916 AcrossReveal answer → Feel contempt for716 AcrossReveal answer → Roman general and governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth817 AcrossReveal answer → Scent518 AcrossReveal answer → Part of biome in Spain with warm spring918 AcrossReveal answer → Artist's tool1219 AcrossReveal answer → Target of left-leaning clubs, periodically520 AcrossReveal answer → SI derived unit of magnetic flux density520 AcrossReveal answer → Obscene420 AcrossReveal answer → Italian adventurer famous for his autobiography, Histoire de ma vie821 AcrossReveal answer → News agency attached to Echo and Mirror321 AcrossReveal answer → Depend421 AcrossReveal answer → Celestial body with hot, turbulent weather1122 AcrossReveal answer → Mexican tortilla containing cheese and other ingredients, folded in half to form a half-moon shape1023 AcrossReveal answer → Wine company accepts credit cards725 AcrossReveal answer → BBC sitcom written by Carla Lane that starred Felicity Kendal as Gemma Palmer425 AcrossReveal answer → Ring with lithium-infused glass resembling a gem726 AcrossReveal answer → Old Iberians regularly rise late527 AcrossReveal answer → See 151127 AcrossReveal answer → Cat catching beam displays assertive behaviour928 AcrossReveal answer → Michael Jackson's first solo album on Epic Records, produced by Quincy Jones1030 AcrossReveal answer → 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers1032 AcrossReveal answer → First season observed in the Western Christian church year634 AcrossReveal answer → Nickname of the first US presidential aircraft936 AcrossReveal answer → French drink made from barley or almonds, and orange flower water638 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Slovakia1039 AcrossReveal answer → French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 19731040 AcrossReveal answer → River on which Shrewsbury stands642 AcrossReveal answer → The former name of Thailand444 AcrossReveal answer → Greek-born economist convicted of perverting the course of justice with her former husband, MP Chris Huhne, in 20131046 AcrossReveal answer → Technical name for the collarbone849 AcrossReveal answer → 1884 opera by Jules Massenet based on a 1731 novel by the Abbé Prévost551 AcrossReveal answer → Town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, that grew up round an abbey founded in 666852 AcrossReveal answer → A recurring movement in Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky954 AcrossReveal answer → African country whose capital is Cairo556 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 Ron Howard film whose stars include Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy657 AcrossReveal answer → Creature who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth until killed by Theseus859 AcrossReveal answer → Oscar-winning 2001 film based on the life of John Forbes Nash1460 AcrossReveal answer →

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Dismissals in cricket71 DownReveal answer → Over-the-top misrepresentation of exes' vices91 DownReveal answer → Spanish river which flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Tarragona41 DownReveal answer → Means of control52 DownReveal answer → Rocker to start playing party piece52 DownReveal answer → Largest island of French Polynesia62 DownReveal answer → Open framework73 DownReveal answer → Solitary leporid mammal that lives in a form43 DownReveal answer → Be cool kid, endlessly undisciplined73 DownReveal answer → Wild eglantine not cultivated94 DownReveal answer → Freight54 DownReveal answer → The youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team84 DownReveal answer → Spanish architect inspired by oblong auditorium55 DownReveal answer → Forefront85 DownReveal answer → Gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods85 DownReveal answer → Mangle radio version of Spitting Image76 DownReveal answer → The capital of Turkey66 DownReveal answer → Facial hair56 DownReveal answer → "Keeping mum" is silly vernacular97 DownReveal answer → A wart, especially one growing on the hand or foot77 DownReveal answer → Brought back king to protect knight, sacrificing bishop58 DownReveal answer → Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the TV series Hornblower128 DownReveal answer → Any elementary particle capable of taking part in a strong nuclear interaction69 DownReveal answer → Long flag810 DownReveal answer → A clear, colourless fruit brandy produced by fermentation and double distillation810 DownReveal answer → 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten912 DownReveal answer → Regular payment712 DownReveal answer → Exalt714 DownReveal answer → Financial business ruined by latest trend914 DownReveal answer → Bunk on a ship515 DownReveal answer → Snooty arse sanctimonious about "end of art"916 DownReveal answer → Pranks fail to entertain boss917 DownReveal answer → Sudden flood517 DownReveal answer → See 81218 DownReveal answer → Leg joint518 DownReveal answer → Feline inhabiting China's green peninsula719 DownReveal answer → The ___, monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams519 DownReveal answer → Dread overtaking Rolls-Royce with current car720 DownReveal answer → Drink father upset in dismay521 DownReveal answer → Japanese city that hosted the first Winter Olympics held in Asia722 DownReveal answer → Animation technique about to crack messy hair523 DownReveal answer → Take courses at university somewhere in Friuli524 DownReveal answer → 1965 Top 10 hit for The Kinks whose B-side was I Need You924 DownReveal answer → Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Syringa526 DownReveal answer → Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth928 DownReveal answer → A fairy servant to Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare629 DownReveal answer → Town in Umbria that was the birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order there in 1208631 DownReveal answer → A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia532 DownReveal answer → A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, with a retractable hood over the rear half833 DownReveal answer → 1997 James Cameron film that won 11 Academy Awards735 DownReveal answer → Omnivorous mammal of the genera Nasua and Nasuella, of Central and South America537 DownReveal answer → 1957 film that gave Elvis Presley his first starring role, as singing delivery man Deke Rivers940 DownReveal answer → Joe ___, former England footballer who managed Oldham Athletic, Everton, Manchester City and Ipswich Town541 DownReveal answer → The great circle on the celestial sphere representing the apparent annual path of the sun relative to the stars843 DownReveal answer → City in California that was the capital of Spain's Pacific empire from 1774 to 1825845 DownReveal answer → 1988 film starring Tom Cruise as a business student who takes up bartending847 DownReveal answer → French port city whose name means "the harbour"748 DownReveal answer → Religious cult associated with Haiti650 DownReveal answer → In classical mythology, a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus651 DownReveal answer → An industrial port in Washington, on Puget Sound653 DownReveal answer → Town in North Holland on the IJsselmeer noted for its cheese455 DownReveal answer → The common European freshwater fish Squalius cephalus457 DownReveal answer → 1980s British comic whose contributors included Marc "Lard" Riley and Charlie Brooker458 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, February 21, 2026. 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.