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The Independent Crossword February 28 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword February 28 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 108 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#
Soft cheeseBRIE4Across1 Parasitic insectFLEA4Across4 Don Juan in hell starts to torment each Russian ballerina?PIROUETTER10Across8 Very smallMINUTE6Across8 Actor 1 goes west in landing craftLEM3Across9 NimbleAGILE5Across9 Sausages in batterTOADINTHEHOLE13Across10 Former European bacteriologistPASTEUR7Across11 CertainlyINDEED6Across11 Actor whose film roles include Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic ParkSAMNEILL8Across12 A flier's good for advertisingPUFFING7Across12 ConsumeDEVOUR6Across13 1934 film starring Grace Moore as opera singer Mary BarrettONENIGHTOFLOVE14Across13 Oscar Wilde's "savage beauty" could spark a new romanceCONNEMARA9Across13 City in Texas that was the site of the AlamoSANANTONIO10Across14 Outlaws stealing £1000 in depositsBANKS5Across15 Otto Erich ___, Austrian music historian and art critic, noted for his catalogue of Schubert's worksDEUTSCH7Across15 The world's longest riverNILE4Across16 Poet reluctant to appear in women's magazine? On the contrarySHELLEY7Across16 Green liqueurCREMEDEMENTHE13Across16 Serviceman carried by plane and dropped into positionPARATROOPER11Across17 The first single released by The Pink Floyd, as they were then calledARNOLDLAYNE11Across18 This silly woman's getting laid without resistanceHERBERT7Across18 FurnishEQUIP5Across19 Woodwind instrument that is the tenor of the oboe familyBASSOON7Across20 FrightenedSCARED6Across20 Charitable donationsALMS4Across21 City dandy beginning to move to the far rightWELLS5Across21 TwilightDUSK4Across22 Leicester-based British clothing brand founded by Henry Wood in 1755WOLSEY6Across22 Lie back briefly cuddling catSTRETCHER9Across23 The first feature-length computer animated filmTOYSTORY8Across24 Fur producer managed to keep company in businessRACCOON7Across25 State drinking clubs must ignore Washington stateDECLARE7Across26 French crew snubbed in NZ partyHUI3Across27 South Sydney ___, Australian rugby league team of which actor Russell Crowe is a part-ownerRABBITOHS9Across27 Rose again serenaded with contralto in medleyREASCENDED10Across28 Welsh actor who made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film BrazilJONATHANPRYCE13Across28 Play by William Shakespeare featuring the characters Shylock, Portia, Bassanio and AntonioTHEMERCHANTOFVENICE19Across30 The amount by which government expenditure exceeds income in any one fiscal yearBUDGETDEFICIT13Across35 Method of ascertaining the amount of a substance in a solutionTITRATION9Across38 Form of tuberculosis also formerly called the king's evilSCROFULA8Across40 Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and BourbonnaisALLIER6Across41 Historian and TV presenter who is a great-great-grandson of David Lloyd GeorgeDANSNOW7Across42 A congenital condition in which the meninges of the spinal cord protrude through a gap in the backboneSPINABIFIDA11Across44 American actor and filmmaker whose films include Citizen Kane and The Magnificent AmbersonsORSONWELLES11Across46 César ___, Swiss hotelier who founded several hotels, most famously in Paris and LondonRITZ4Across49 A spear with three or more prongs for spearing fish, especially salmonLEISTER7Across50 North American name for a nightjarGOATSUCKER10Across52 American blues and soul singer best known for the Grammy Award-winning single PatchesCLARENCECARTER14Across53 Branch of mathematics concerned with points, lines, curves and surfacesGEOMETRY8Across54

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Joe finally starts playing after grabbing bass guitarGIBSON6Down1 Turkish sports club based on the European side of IstanbulGALATASARAY11Down1 Bishop and cardinal spread fertiliserBONEMEAL8Down2 The capital of TurkeyANKARA6Down2 Indian yoghurt dishRAITA5Down2 Live next to a river or brookBEAR4Down3 Sir Walter ___, the first manager of the England football team, 1946–1962WINTERBOTTOM12Down3 Difficult to catchELUSIVE7Down3 Relative has rung the girl about moneySTEPFATHER10Down4 Scottish site of a massacre of Macdonalds by Campbells and English troops in 1692GLENCOE7Down4 CarnivalFIESTA6Down4 Rub outERASE5Down5 Faint constellation on the celestial equator crossed by the Milky Way and lying close to Orion and Canis MajorMONOCEROS9Down5 House official punches Baptist upPREFAB6Down5 Japanese robeKIMONO6Down6 Daughter abandons casual affair for marriage?ALLIANCE8Down6 1881 children's story by Johanna SpyriHEIDI5Down6 A member of the aboriginal people of JapanAINU4Down7 PractiseREHEARSE8Down7 Pictures one needs to see one million timesIMAGES6Down7 Spike Lee's first feature-length filmSHESGOTTAHAVEIT15Down8 Eyepatch-wearing Israeli soldier and former minister of defence and foreign minister who died in 1981MOSHEDAYAN10Down9 That woman stays busy over long periodsEPOCHS6Down10 English cartoonist noted for his absurdist drawings which have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on SundayGLENBAXTER10Down10 Bird-watcherTWITCHER8Down10 Legendary island on which King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forgedAVALON6Down11 Become extinctDIEOUT6Down12 Old African employed by South Asian nursing homeABYSSINIAN10Down14 Green gemstoneEMERALD7Down14 Population countCENSUS6Down15 EjectEXPEL5Down17 Divers charged for possessing cocaine run awayECLECTIC8Down17 Lock of hairTRESS5Down18 Labour politician who was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1979ROYMASON8Down19 Withdrawn novel about rampant sexRETICENT8Down19 Traitor picked up at Land's EndTARGET6Down20 State of Malaysia whose capital is Kota KinabaluSABAH5Down21 Why rot away like some victims?WORTHY6Down21 This course will suppress beastly diarrhoeaSCOURS6Down22 A wading bird such as Platalea leucorodia or Ajaia ajajaSPOONBILL9Down23 Erica leaves second husband for the sun?HEATER6Down24 Instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victimRACK4Down25 Gumshoe spotted one at lunchDICK4Down26 The temporary head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador or ministerCHARGEDAFFAIRES15Down26 Country formerly called SiamTHAILAND8Down29 English comic actor and singer who was a cult figure in AlbaniaNORMANWISDOM12Down31 Large constellation whose name means whaleCETUS5Down32 ___ Dimittis, the Latin name for the Canticle of SimeonNUNC4Down33 1979 US number one by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer, with the subtitle (Enough is Enough)NOMORETEARS11Down34 A point on the surface of land or water at or directly above or below the centre of a nuclear explosionGROUNDZERO10Down36 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girlTHUMBELINA10Down37 Comedian who hosted the game show 3-2-1 from 1978 to 1988TEDROGERS9Down39 1954 film featuring Sidney Poitier and the Harlem GlobetrottersGOMANGO7Down43 Another name for the cowslip and oxlipPAIGLE6Down45 Simple composite plant consisting of a fungus in association with an algaLICHEN6Down47 The Muse of love poetryERATO5Down48 The tree Tectona grandis of the East Indies that yields a hard resinous yellowish-brown woodTEAK4Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, February 28, 2026. 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.