The Independent Crossword February 28 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for February 28 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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Soft cheese41 AcrossReveal answer → Parasitic insect44 AcrossReveal answer → Don Juan in hell starts to torment each Russian ballerina?108 AcrossReveal answer → Very small68 AcrossReveal answer → Actor 1 goes west in landing craft39 AcrossReveal answer → Nimble59 AcrossReveal answer → Sausages in batter1310 AcrossReveal answer → Former European bacteriologist711 AcrossReveal answer → Certainly611 AcrossReveal answer → Actor whose film roles include Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park812 AcrossReveal answer → A flier's good for advertising712 AcrossReveal answer → Consume613 AcrossReveal answer → 1934 film starring Grace Moore as opera singer Mary Barrett1413 AcrossReveal answer → Oscar Wilde's "savage beauty" could spark a new romance913 AcrossReveal answer → City in Texas that was the site of the Alamo1014 AcrossReveal answer → Outlaws stealing £1000 in deposits515 AcrossReveal answer → Otto Erich ___, Austrian music historian and art critic, noted for his catalogue of Schubert's works715 AcrossReveal answer → The world's longest river416 AcrossReveal answer → Poet reluctant to appear in women's magazine? On the contrary716 AcrossReveal answer → Green liqueur1316 AcrossReveal answer → Serviceman carried by plane and dropped into position1117 AcrossReveal answer → The first single released by The Pink Floyd, as they were then called1118 AcrossReveal answer → This silly woman's getting laid without resistance718 AcrossReveal answer → Furnish519 AcrossReveal answer → Woodwind instrument that is the tenor of the oboe family720 AcrossReveal answer → Frightened620 AcrossReveal answer → Charitable donations421 AcrossReveal answer → City dandy beginning to move to the far right521 AcrossReveal answer → Twilight422 AcrossReveal answer → Leicester-based British clothing brand founded by Henry Wood in 1755622 AcrossReveal answer → Lie back briefly cuddling cat923 AcrossReveal answer → The first feature-length computer animated film824 AcrossReveal answer → Fur producer managed to keep company in business725 AcrossReveal answer → State drinking clubs must ignore Washington state726 AcrossReveal answer → French crew snubbed in NZ party327 AcrossReveal answer → South Sydney ___, Australian rugby league team of which actor Russell Crowe is a part-owner927 AcrossReveal answer → Rose again serenaded with contralto in medley1028 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh actor who made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil1328 AcrossReveal answer → Play by William Shakespeare featuring the characters Shylock, Portia, Bassanio and Antonio1930 AcrossReveal answer → The amount by which government expenditure exceeds income in any one fiscal year1335 AcrossReveal answer → Method of ascertaining the amount of a substance in a solution938 AcrossReveal answer → Form of tuberculosis also formerly called the king's evil840 AcrossReveal answer → Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais641 AcrossReveal answer → Historian and TV presenter who is a great-great-grandson of David Lloyd George742 AcrossReveal answer → A congenital condition in which the meninges of the spinal cord protrude through a gap in the backbone1144 AcrossReveal answer → American actor and filmmaker whose films include Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons1146 AcrossReveal answer → César ___, Swiss hotelier who founded several hotels, most famously in Paris and London449 AcrossReveal answer → A spear with three or more prongs for spearing fish, especially salmon750 AcrossReveal answer → North American name for a nightjar1052 AcrossReveal answer → American blues and soul singer best known for the Grammy Award-winning single Patches1453 AcrossReveal answer → Branch of mathematics concerned with points, lines, curves and surfaces854 AcrossReveal answer →

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Joe finally starts playing after grabbing bass guitar61 DownReveal answer → Turkish sports club based on the European side of Istanbul111 DownReveal answer → Bishop and cardinal spread fertiliser82 DownReveal answer → The capital of Turkey62 DownReveal answer → Indian yoghurt dish52 DownReveal answer → Live next to a river or brook43 DownReveal answer → Sir Walter ___, the first manager of the England football team, 1946–1962123 DownReveal answer → Difficult to catch73 DownReveal answer → Relative has rung the girl about money104 DownReveal answer → Scottish site of a massacre of Macdonalds by Campbells and English troops in 169274 DownReveal answer → Carnival64 DownReveal answer → Rub out55 DownReveal answer → Faint constellation on the celestial equator crossed by the Milky Way and lying close to Orion and Canis Major95 DownReveal answer → House official punches Baptist up65 DownReveal answer → Japanese robe66 DownReveal answer → Daughter abandons casual affair for marriage?86 DownReveal answer → 1881 children's story by Johanna Spyri56 DownReveal answer → A member of the aboriginal people of Japan47 DownReveal answer → Practise87 DownReveal answer → Pictures one needs to see one million times67 DownReveal answer → Spike Lee's first feature-length film158 DownReveal answer → Eyepatch-wearing Israeli soldier and former minister of defence and foreign minister who died in 1981109 DownReveal answer → That woman stays busy over long periods610 DownReveal answer → English cartoonist noted for his absurdist drawings which have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on Sunday1010 DownReveal answer → Bird-watcher810 DownReveal answer → Legendary island on which King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged611 DownReveal answer → Become extinct612 DownReveal answer → Old African employed by South Asian nursing home1014 DownReveal answer → Green gemstone714 DownReveal answer → Population count615 DownReveal answer → Eject517 DownReveal answer → Divers charged for possessing cocaine run away817 DownReveal answer → Lock of hair518 DownReveal answer → Labour politician who was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1979819 DownReveal answer → Withdrawn novel about rampant sex819 DownReveal answer → Traitor picked up at Land's End620 DownReveal answer → State of Malaysia whose capital is Kota Kinabalu521 DownReveal answer → Why rot away like some victims?621 DownReveal answer → This course will suppress beastly diarrhoea622 DownReveal answer → A wading bird such as Platalea leucorodia or Ajaia ajaja923 DownReveal answer → Erica leaves second husband for the sun?624 DownReveal answer → Instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim425 DownReveal answer → Gumshoe spotted one at lunch426 DownReveal answer → The temporary head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador or minister1526 DownReveal answer → Country formerly called Siam829 DownReveal answer → English comic actor and singer who was a cult figure in Albania1231 DownReveal answer → Large constellation whose name means whale532 DownReveal answer → ___ Dimittis, the Latin name for the Canticle of Simeon433 DownReveal answer → 1979 US number one by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer, with the subtitle (Enough is Enough)1134 DownReveal answer → A point on the surface of land or water at or directly above or below the centre of a nuclear explosion1036 DownReveal answer → Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girl1037 DownReveal answer → Comedian who hosted the game show 3-2-1 from 1978 to 1988939 DownReveal answer → 1954 film featuring Sidney Poitier and the Harlem Globetrotters743 DownReveal answer → Another name for the cowslip and oxlip645 DownReveal answer → Simple composite plant consisting of a fungus in association with an alga647 DownReveal answer → The Muse of love poetry548 DownReveal answer → The tree Tectona grandis of the East Indies that yields a hard resinous yellowish-brown wood451 DownReveal answer →

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