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The Independent Crossword February 24 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword February 24 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 111 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#
FalsehoodLIE3Across1 TalentABILITY7Across3 Milky Way? Yes and noGALAXY6Across7 Glaringly obviousBLATANT7Across8 DistortTWIST5Across9 Looks around facing this type of combatAIRTOAIR8Across9 Actor who played the title role in the film serial Tarzan the FearlessBUSTERCRABBE12Across9 Sick? That's vagueILLDEFINED10Across10 Noteworthy occasionREDLETTERDAY12Across10 Expected lady at first to fight for honourDUEL4Across11 Camberwell-born actress and director who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in They Drive by Night and High SierraIDALUPINO9Across11 Ragged childURCHIN6Across12 Electrified track's beginning at Holyhead - bothered about lengthTHRILLED8Across12 See 31WILLIAMHARRISONAINSWORTH24Across14 Shooting starMETEOR6Across14 I see attack repelled by Italian championsNAPOLI6Across14 A machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines printed on an itemBARCODE7Across15 Maths processLONGDIVISION12Across16 During war, a number of legit lawmen are heartlessly sufferingWELLMEETAGAIN13Across16 Author of the play The Ghost Train who later played Private Godfrey in Dad's ArmyARNOLDRIDLEY12Across16 Amsterdam-based football team who won the European Cup three times in a row in the 1970sAJAX4Across17 See 16ARNOLDRIDLEY12Across18 SurpassOUTDO5Across19 Discussed chances of bad behaviour in clerical meetingsSYNODS6Across19 City in Russia, on the delta of the Volga River, 21m below sea levelASTRAKHAN9Across19 ClaimPURPORT7Across20 The capital of the BahamasNASSAU6Across21 GenuineSINCERE7Across21 Jack comically takes a bit of exercise pushing back coverDEPUTISE8Across21 AdversaryFOE3Across22 Where animal keepers might go reportedly for filmZULU4Across23 Romeo in state of excitement takes both right off - the ladies love himHEARTTHROB10Across25 See 50MOODINDIGO10Across25 American paediatrician whose 1946 book Baby and Child Care was an international best-sellerBENJAMINSPOCK13Across27 See plane struggling and peopleNEPALESE8Across27 More spacious but not as safe away from hotelAIRIER6Across28 English historical novelist whose 1834 novel Rookwood features Dick Turpin as its leading characterWILLIAMHARRISONAINSWORTH24Across31 Character in the film Diamonds Are Forever played by Natalie Wood's younger sister LanaPLENTYOTOOLE12Across33 Village in Bedfordshire with a zoo owned by the Zoological Society of LondonWHIPSNADE9Across34 See 33PLENTYOTOOLE12Across35 In physics, the tendency of a body to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external forceINERTIA7Across36 American general played by George C Scott in an Oscar-winning performance in a 1970 filmGEORGESPATTON13Across37 In biology, an adjective meaning covered with stiff hairs or bristlesHISPID6Across39 American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer whose films include Singin' in the Rain and An American in ParisGENEKELLY9Across41 1976 album by Bob Dylan whose opening track is "55 Across"DESIRE6Across44 The second poem of T S Eliot's Four QuartetsEASTCOKER9Across47 Chinese tree cultivated for its round edible fruitsLITCHI6Across49 1930 jazz composition with music by Duke Ellington and Barney BigardMOODINDIGO10Across50 Term for interviews with members of the public on a radio or television programmeVOXPOP6Across52 American singer and songwriter whose eponymous debut album won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album in 2003ASHANTI7Across53 In chemistry, two valency electrons of opposite spin responsible for the formation of coordinate bondsLONEPAIR8Across54 A wind of force 12 or above on the Beaufort scaleHURRICANE9Across55 Australian tennis player who won three of the four Grand Slam events in 1958ASHLEYCOOPER12Across56

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Left to find out everything about burial siteLANDFILL8Down1 The North American name for swedeRUTABAGA8Down1 Yellow-flowered treeLABURNUM8Down1 Vision and sound engineerEYEFUL6Down2 1977 film that spawned three sequels and three prequelsSTARWARS8Down2 Large antelopeELAND5Down2 Charged admission for one feature of Manchester?RAIN4Down3 Max ___, German painter who developed the technique of collageERNST5Down3 ShrewdASTUTE6Down3 After attack, crazed nurse shoved in cupboardCREDENZA8Down4 A tropical American shrub of the genus Plumeria, such as Plumeria rubra, whose flowers have a sweet overpowering scentFRANGIPANI10Down4 Go-betweenINTERMEDIARY12Down4 British comedian whose real name was Charlie OldenTEDRAY6Down5 Delay supportHOLDUP6Down5 MimicIMITATE7Down5 Abominable snowmanYETI4Down6 Unprotected attacker gets wingmanAIDE4Down6 Creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth, in Greek mythologyMINOTAUR8Down6 Pub (Facetious)WATERINGHOLE12Down7 Chief language of the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar HaveliGUJARATI8Down7 Actress who played Jim Hacker's wife Annie in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime MinisterDIANAHODDINOTT14Down8 Drive off around town with hack: "Where do we go for a shag?"ALLTHEWAY9Down8 The chief city of ancient MesopotamiaBABYLON7Down10 Brown-haired femaleBRUNETTE8Down11 A language related to EskimoALEUT5Down12 A crease-resistant acrylic fibre created by DuPont in 1941ORLON5Down13 Crunchy bread cubeCROUTON7Down13 Feared old fellow on enteringDREAD5Down13 Part of a nun's habitWIMPLE6Down15 Wants deposit (after home on the coast)LONGSHORE9Down15 With Prime Minister at first is causing troubleMISCHIEF8Down17 Billiards shotINOFF5Down17 Person in chargeBOSS4Down18 Winston Smith may be another oneANTIHERO8Down18 In Persian poetry, a verse form consisting of four-line stanzasRUBAIYAT8Down20 Eye's humorous though not front coverOCULAR6Down20 Old tool for two - it's in handPITSAW6Down22 Joni Mitchell song that gave Matthews Southern Comfort a number one single in 1970WOODSTOCK9Down23 Creature allegedly ingesting waste productUREA4Down24 The distance from the bow of an anchored vessel to the anchorHAWSE5Down24 A type of percussion orchestra common in the East IndiesGAMELAN7Down26 I agree male organ is way shortAMEN4Down26 Cocktail that originated in Harry's Bar in VeniceBELLINI7Down27 Internationally recognised identity card first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugeesNANSENPASSPORT14Down28 Professional name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon SumnerSTING5Down29 Variety of the wild ass, Equus hemionus, that occurs in Tibet and surrounding regionsKIANG5Down30 Actor whose films include The Revenant, Don't Look Up and Killers of the Flower MoonLEONARDODICAPRIO16Down32 Harry ___, jockey whose 13 Classic winners include the Derby winners Felstead, Blenheim and Watling StreetWRAGG5Down34 Group of volcanic islands in the Indian Ocean whose capital is VictoriaSEYCHELLES10Down38 See 32LEONARDODICAPRIO16Down40 Arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the N European mainlandNORTHSEA8Down42 Another name for the Latvian languageLETTISH7Down43 Arachnid of warm dry regions with a long tail terminating in a venomous stingSCORPION8Down45 1948 Howard Hawks Western giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm TrailREDRIVER8Down46 A unit of geological time within a period during which a series of rocks is formedEPOCH5Down47 The slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial Phascolarctus cinereusKOALA5Down48 A representation of the Hindu deity Shiva considered a symbol of male creative energyLINGAM6Down49 Cain's eldest son, after whom a city was namedENOCH5Down51

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