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The Independent Crossword January 27 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 27 2024 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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Church passagewayAISLE5Across1 Large seaOCEAN5Across4 Have one leg each side ofSTRADDLE8Across7 ErstwhilePAST4Across8 Throw a strop about filling of roti dishPOTROAST8Across8 Performer's body of workREPERTOIRE10Across9 Ancient city - sacred tours every 60 minutesHOURLY6Across9 Washington Post journalist who, with Carl Bernstein, did much of the original reporting on the Watergate scandalBOBWOODWARD11Across10 Old rockers caught daughter visiting adult clubsACDC4Across10 Sort of conk out - no reason - crossing motorwayROMANNOSE9Across11 Where The Three Little Pigs live, steaming rice's typically includedGRICESTY8Across12 American singer and actress best known for her hits C'est Si Bon and Santa BabyEARTHAKITT10Across12 FanaticZEALOT6Across12 Israeli singer who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with the song DivaDANAINTERNATIONAL17Across14 Red wineSHIRAZ6Across14 Arab chaps featured in the old-fashioned newspaperYEMENI6Across14 Newspaper formatBROADSHEET10Across15 Surname of the brothers in the band SparksMAEL4Across15 Symbolically, I vote into office Republican in charge that's up to dateELECTRICCURRENT15Across16 Children's author whose books include Madame Doubtfire and Goggle-EyesANNEFINE8Across16 Another name for the Furies or the Erinyes in Greek mythologyEUMENIDES9Across17 LabyrinthMAZE4Across18 American novelist whose books include Exodus and TrinityLEONURIS8Across19 Pork producer making a sandwich of Old Trafford's Walls sausageHOTDOG6Across19 Demanding personSTICKLER8Across19 Morrison's Group HO stored bananasTHEDOORS8Across20 The primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the GemaraTALMUD6Across20 Small food fishSPRAT5Across21 Available moneyFUNDS5Across22 Bird starts to eat rancid litterSTRETCHER9Across23 Olympic event created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to simulate the experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldierMODERNPENTATHLON16Across24 The capital of ColombiaBOGOTA6Across25 A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrainRONDEAU7Across26 Very attractive individual getting stripped in public exhibitionEXPO4Across26 I want a new progressive countryTAIWAN6Across27 South African actor and comedian who made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half HourSIDJAMES8Across27 Morris perhaps penning letter to Greek character from CreteMINOTAUR8Across28 American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movementJOSEPHSMITH11Across29 The capital of MalaysiaKUALALUMPUR11Across31 1967 film starring Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares and Bill BixbyCLAMBAKE8Across34 Rod-shaped bacteriaBACILLI7Across36 A pedantic clergyman obsessed with finishing his scholarly research in George Eliot's novel MiddlemarchEDWARDCASAUBON14Across38 The only member of the genus InachisPEACOCKBUTTERFLY16Across39 See 48 DownCLAIRETAYLOR12Across42 See 38EDWARDCASAUBON14Across43 Former Ranger and Scotland goalkeeper who also represented Scotland at cricketANDYGORAM9Across44 1999 novel by Benjamin Zephaniah about a boy disfigured in a car crashFACE4Across47 See 16ANNEFINE8Across49 Russian figure skater who was 1988 and 1994 Olympic Pairs champion with Sergei GrinkovEKATERINAGORDEEVA17Across50 Member of The Mamas & the Papas who died in 1974CASSELLIOT10Across52 American singer and actor whose wives included Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie StevensEDDIEFISHER11Across53

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Game to take regular samples of Scotch. Cheers!SOCCER6Down1 Nigerian city that is capital of Oyo stateIBADAN6Down1 US lawyerATTORNEY8Down1 I cure rising California detectives seedy outputERUCICACID10Down2 Alabama's only portMOBILE6Down2 Health resortSPA3Down2 Gainsbourg flipped when hosting American boresEAGRES6Down3 The most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibitedADYTUM6Down3 Sea duckEIDER5Down3 Knut's entertaining extremely tiresome coupleITEM4Down4 London station opened on 10 January 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan RailwayFARRINGDON10Down4 BurdensomeONEROUS7Down4 Pocket hanky ought to muffle cheersTHANKYOU8Down5 Norwegian composer who wrote incidental music for Ibsen's play Peer GyntEDVARDGRIEG11Down5 Special skillEXPERTISE9Down5 Bird's homeNEST4Down6 US actress whose early films include Blame It on Rio, St Elmo's Fire and About Last Night ...DEMIMOORE9Down6 Very upper-class male gets into wrestlingSUMO4Down6 See 41BENJAMINFRANKLIN16Down7 Bloke from France declining to shore up its African capitalALGERNON8Down7 Well-known Stanley Holloway monologue written by Marriott EdgarTHELIONANDALBERT16Down8 Spanish football team that moved to the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in 2017ATLETICOMADRID14Down9 Arctic animalPOLARBEAR9Down10 Another name for sesameBENNE5Down11 Restaurant serverWAITRESS8Down11 The name of Cambodia from 1976 to 1989KAMPUCHEA9Down13 Restoring Chay Blyth's penultimate vesselYACHT5Down13 PassageTRANSIT7Down13 Punch for one Italian plumber abusing tenetMARIONETTE10Down15 Small light boatSKIFF5Down16 Funky gang leader upset, miserable, black inside ... doesn't bode wellLOOKSBAD8Down17 Church serviceMASS4Down17 Another word for hara-kiriSEPPUKU7Down18 Baltic capital into fresh pastaRIGATONI8Down18 RelativesKIN3Down20 Aquatic salamander of the North American genus AmbystomaAXOLOTL7Down21 The old Queen managed day jobERRAND6Down21 Excise duty unlimited following Russia's first stock sale to the publicRIPOUT6Down22 See 6DEMIMOORE9Down22 The insect Xestobium rufovillosum that produces a rapid tapping sound with its headDEATHWATCHBEETLE16Down23 Starter of shrimp, canned fish roeRAWN4Down24 Prosper ___, French author best known for his short novel Carmen, on which Bizet's opera was basedMERIMEE7Down24 Jon, rubbish actor first seen in Mad MenHAMM4Down25 The Mediterranean plant Tragopogon porrifolius, also called oyster plant or vegetable oysterSALSIFY7Down27 Brazilian-born footballer who made his debut for Croatia in 2004EDUARDO7Down28 First name of the child witch in the 1960s US sitcom BewitchedTABITHA7Down30 Song with English lyrics by Paul Anka based on the French song Comme d'habitudeMYWAY5Down32 Drink consisting of orange juice and vodkaSCREWDRIVER11Down33 A Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea and founded the Hasmonean dynastyMACCABEES9Down35 The most senior regiment of the British ArmyLIFEGUARDS10Down37 A family of venomous snakes that have hollow, fixed fangs through which they inject venomELAPIDAE8Down40 American statesman, scientist and author who invented the lightning conductorBENJAMINFRANKLIN16Down41 The largest of the Dodecanese islandsRHODES6Down45 See 9ATLETICOMADRID14Down46 First film of the "Paul Morrissey Trilogy" produced by Andy WarholFLESH5Down47 The first woman to be named one of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's Cricketers of the YearCLAIRETAYLOR12Down48 William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudesETTY4Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, January 27, 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.