The Independent Crossword February 24 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for February 24 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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Falsehood31 AcrossReveal answer → Talent73 AcrossReveal answer → Milky Way? Yes and no67 AcrossReveal answer → Glaringly obvious78 AcrossReveal answer → Distort59 AcrossReveal answer → Looks around facing this type of combat89 AcrossReveal answer → Actor who played the title role in the film serial Tarzan the Fearless129 AcrossReveal answer → Sick? That's vague1010 AcrossReveal answer → Noteworthy occasion1210 AcrossReveal answer → Expected lady at first to fight for honour411 AcrossReveal answer → Camberwell-born actress and director who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in They Drive by Night and High Sierra911 AcrossReveal answer → Ragged child612 AcrossReveal answer → Electrified track's beginning at Holyhead - bothered about length812 AcrossReveal answer → See 312414 AcrossReveal answer → Shooting star614 AcrossReveal answer → I see attack repelled by Italian champions614 AcrossReveal answer → A machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines printed on an item715 AcrossReveal answer → Maths process1216 AcrossReveal answer → During war, a number of legit lawmen are heartlessly suffering1316 AcrossReveal answer → Author of the play The Ghost Train who later played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army1216 AcrossReveal answer → Amsterdam-based football team who won the European Cup three times in a row in the 1970s417 AcrossReveal answer → See 161218 AcrossReveal answer → Surpass519 AcrossReveal answer → Discussed chances of bad behaviour in clerical meetings619 AcrossReveal answer → City in Russia, on the delta of the Volga River, 21m below sea level919 AcrossReveal answer → Claim720 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of the Bahamas621 AcrossReveal answer → Genuine721 AcrossReveal answer → Jack comically takes a bit of exercise pushing back cover821 AcrossReveal answer → Adversary322 AcrossReveal answer → Where animal keepers might go reportedly for film423 AcrossReveal answer → Romeo in state of excitement takes both right off - the ladies love him1025 AcrossReveal answer → See 501025 AcrossReveal answer → American paediatrician whose 1946 book Baby and Child Care was an international best-seller1327 AcrossReveal answer → See plane struggling and people827 AcrossReveal answer → More spacious but not as safe away from hotel628 AcrossReveal answer → English historical novelist whose 1834 novel Rookwood features Dick Turpin as its leading character2431 AcrossReveal answer → Character in the film Diamonds Are Forever played by Natalie Wood's younger sister Lana1233 AcrossReveal answer → Village in Bedfordshire with a zoo owned by the Zoological Society of London934 AcrossReveal answer → See 331235 AcrossReveal answer → In physics, the tendency of a body to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force736 AcrossReveal answer → American general played by George C Scott in an Oscar-winning performance in a 1970 film1337 AcrossReveal answer → In biology, an adjective meaning covered with stiff hairs or bristles639 AcrossReveal answer → American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer whose films include Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris941 AcrossReveal answer → 1976 album by Bob Dylan whose opening track is "55 Across"644 AcrossReveal answer → The second poem of T S Eliot's Four Quartets947 AcrossReveal answer → Chinese tree cultivated for its round edible fruits649 AcrossReveal answer → 1930 jazz composition with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard1050 AcrossReveal answer → Term for interviews with members of the public on a radio or television programme652 AcrossReveal answer → American singer and songwriter whose eponymous debut album won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album in 2003753 AcrossReveal answer → In chemistry, two valency electrons of opposite spin responsible for the formation of coordinate bonds854 AcrossReveal answer → A wind of force 12 or above on the Beaufort scale955 AcrossReveal answer → Australian tennis player who won three of the four Grand Slam events in 19581256 AcrossReveal answer →

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Left to find out everything about burial site81 DownReveal answer → The North American name for swede81 DownReveal answer → Yellow-flowered tree81 DownReveal answer → Vision and sound engineer62 DownReveal answer → 1977 film that spawned three sequels and three prequels82 DownReveal answer → Large antelope52 DownReveal answer → Charged admission for one feature of Manchester?43 DownReveal answer → Max ___, German painter who developed the technique of collage53 DownReveal answer → Shrewd63 DownReveal answer → After attack, crazed nurse shoved in cupboard84 DownReveal answer → A tropical American shrub of the genus Plumeria, such as Plumeria rubra, whose flowers have a sweet overpowering scent104 DownReveal answer → Go-between124 DownReveal answer → British comedian whose real name was Charlie Olden65 DownReveal answer → Delay support65 DownReveal answer → Mimic75 DownReveal answer → Abominable snowman46 DownReveal answer → Unprotected attacker gets wingman46 DownReveal answer → Creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth, in Greek mythology86 DownReveal answer → Pub (Facetious)127 DownReveal answer → Chief language of the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli87 DownReveal answer → Actress who played Jim Hacker's wife Annie in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister148 DownReveal answer → Drive off around town with hack: "Where do we go for a shag?"98 DownReveal answer → The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia710 DownReveal answer → Brown-haired female811 DownReveal answer → A language related to Eskimo512 DownReveal answer → A crease-resistant acrylic fibre created by DuPont in 1941513 DownReveal answer → Crunchy bread cube713 DownReveal answer → Feared old fellow on entering513 DownReveal answer → Part of a nun's habit615 DownReveal answer → Wants deposit (after home on the coast)915 DownReveal answer → With Prime Minister at first is causing trouble817 DownReveal answer → Billiards shot517 DownReveal answer → Person in charge418 DownReveal answer → Winston Smith may be another one818 DownReveal answer → In Persian poetry, a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas820 DownReveal answer → Eye's humorous though not front cover620 DownReveal answer → Old tool for two - it's in hand622 DownReveal answer → Joni Mitchell song that gave Matthews Southern Comfort a number one single in 1970923 DownReveal answer → Creature allegedly ingesting waste product424 DownReveal answer → The distance from the bow of an anchored vessel to the anchor524 DownReveal answer → A type of percussion orchestra common in the East Indies726 DownReveal answer → I agree male organ is way short426 DownReveal answer → Cocktail that originated in Harry's Bar in Venice727 DownReveal answer → Internationally recognised identity card first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees1428 DownReveal answer → Professional name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon Sumner529 DownReveal answer → Variety of the wild ass, Equus hemionus, that occurs in Tibet and surrounding regions530 DownReveal answer → Actor whose films include The Revenant, Don't Look Up and Killers of the Flower Moon1632 DownReveal answer → Harry ___, jockey whose 13 Classic winners include the Derby winners Felstead, Blenheim and Watling Street534 DownReveal answer → Group of volcanic islands in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Victoria1038 DownReveal answer → See 321640 DownReveal answer → Arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the N European mainland842 DownReveal answer → Another name for the Latvian language743 DownReveal answer → Arachnid of warm dry regions with a long tail terminating in a venomous sting845 DownReveal answer → 1948 Howard Hawks Western giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail846 DownReveal answer → A unit of geological time within a period during which a series of rocks is formed547 DownReveal answer → The slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial Phascolarctus cinereus548 DownReveal answer → A representation of the Hindu deity Shiva considered a symbol of male creative energy649 DownReveal answer → Cain's eldest son, after whom a city was named551 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, February 24, 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.