The Independent Crossword July 18 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 18 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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Volition41 AcrossReveal answer → Go to meet German girl somewhere for a little drink?91 AcrossReveal answer → Replete43 AcrossReveal answer → On retirement, provided with very limited amount of money56 AcrossReveal answer → Pharmaceutical product47 AcrossReveal answer → Not compulsory88 AcrossReveal answer → Very loudly exercise in wood when it’s supposed to be quiet79 AcrossReveal answer → Electrical component109 AcrossReveal answer → London-born TV presenter who hosted an eponymous tabloid talk show on US television between 1991 and 20181310 AcrossReveal answer → Recall failure of clumsy seaman to gather sails in the middle710 AcrossReveal answer → Eccentric cheered men and met for drink1311 AcrossReveal answer → English actress whose TV series have included Coronation Street, Dinnerladies and Last Tango in Halifax812 AcrossReveal answer → Souped-up car612 AcrossReveal answer → Name by which Benfica's stadium is known1213 AcrossReveal answer → Northern Ireland border rejected Japanese wine513 AcrossReveal answer → Small restaurant613 AcrossReveal answer → Camille ___, French composer whose works include The Carnival of the Animals and Danse macabre1014 AcrossReveal answer → A system of exercise named after its German inventor whose father was a gymnast from Greece715 AcrossReveal answer → Propositions concerning trade union resolution915 AcrossReveal answer → Thwarted1015 AcrossReveal answer → See 511416 AcrossReveal answer → Instructions to a candidate at the head of an examination paper617 AcrossReveal answer → Gardener employing Pole holding current degree – one earning a lot for the business917 AcrossReveal answer → Connecting device818 AcrossReveal answer → Caffeinated drink livens setter519 AcrossReveal answer → Converse420 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Riga620 AcrossReveal answer → Church in the morning: on top of that cathedral city views showing famous avenue1321 AcrossReveal answer → Stinging insect421 AcrossReveal answer → William ___, English journalist and social reformer who founded The Political Register and wrote Rural Rides721 AcrossReveal answer → Weapons422 AcrossReveal answer → Communications code word for the letter N822 AcrossReveal answer → Period from about the late 5th century to about 1000 AD823 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of heat equal to 100,000 btu524 AcrossReveal answer → Asian republic established in 1948 in the former British mandate of Palestine625 AcrossReveal answer → It fertilises egg at speed725 AcrossReveal answer → Leaving hotel, warm welcome for jealous husband726 AcrossReveal answer → Kind steps taken in hearing527 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of flowering plants known as catnip or catmint628 AcrossReveal answer → Sick pups cured and made better928 AcrossReveal answer → Former prime minister whose middle names are Charles Lynton931 AcrossReveal answer → A medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed with blisters632 AcrossReveal answer → Irish princess married to Mark, king of Cornwall, but in love with his knight Tristan633 AcrossReveal answer → The vertical part of a stair or step534 AcrossReveal answer → An Asian pheasant with a brilliant plumage and brightly coloured fleshy processes on the head835 AcrossReveal answer → The largest city in the Texas Panhandle839 AcrossReveal answer → The Importance of Being ___, Oscar Wilde play subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People741 AcrossReveal answer → Market town at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon643 AcrossReveal answer → The largest listed company in Japan by market capitalisation644 AcrossReveal answer → A counting device consisting of a frame holding rods on which beads can be moved645 AcrossReveal answer → A southern African beverage prepared from the dried leaves of certain leguminous shrubs, also called rooibos746 AcrossReveal answer → A microcrystalline form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres1048 AcrossReveal answer → The first song by The Who on which Pete Townshend sang lead vocals1250 AcrossReveal answer → Robert Louis Stevenson story originally called The Sea Cook1451 AcrossReveal answer → President of South Africa from 1994 to 19991352 AcrossReveal answer →

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Measured from top of seam down41 DownReveal answer → 1959 number one single in the UK for Bobby Darin that features Neil Sedaka on piano101 DownReveal answer → Hospital room41 DownReveal answer → Chip installed in present PC?72 DownReveal answer → Comedy by Aristophanes about a woman's mission to end the Peloponnesian War102 DownReveal answer → Smoker's accessory72 DownReveal answer → Ogre beginning to eat diver53 DownReveal answer → The highest ranking of the four suits in bridge63 DownReveal answer → Fleshy33 DownReveal answer → Beauty54 DownReveal answer → Losing runs is irritating with stone in footwear94 DownReveal answer → American actor who played Dr David Banner in the TV series The Incredible Hulk94 DownReveal answer → Play by George Bernard Shaw whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid135 DownReveal answer → Strainer85 DownReveal answer → Ride on board Ford Model T, splitting southeast55 DownReveal answer → Left-handed batsman who played 117 Test matches and had two spells as England captain106 DownReveal answer → Semi-finals leading to German upset – a nail-biting finish?96 DownReveal answer → Not sweet76 DownReveal answer → Boy band created on the ITV TV series Popstars: The Rivals who lost out to girl group Girls Aloud in the battle for the 2002 Christmas number one single127 DownReveal answer → Head guard smuggles note back for outsider77 DownReveal answer → Name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory in J R R Tolkien's works48 DownReveal answer → Gibberish I rephrased for audience108 DownReveal answer → A housing for a ship's compass89 DownReveal answer → The first published full-length novel by Henry Fielding1310 DownReveal answer → Deliberately destroy810 DownReveal answer → Small graceful antelope of which there is a Thomson's variety711 DownReveal answer → Kentucky whiskey711 DownReveal answer → Diluted espressos since aroma is horrible1012 DownReveal answer → Motorcycle attachment714 DownReveal answer → Badge identifying North American politician in Europe (deceased)914 DownReveal answer → Reddish-brown pigment516 DownReveal answer → Yard party joined by other ranks after earl makes special entrance916 DownReveal answer → Church service417 DownReveal answer → Home at apartment, put on lady’s clothing, in a way not fitting718 DownReveal answer → First surname of Carlos the Jackal718 DownReveal answer → Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose films include Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid and Tommy1019 DownReveal answer → Little devil319 DownReveal answer → Ground water covering street beside lake beginning to drain720 DownReveal answer → G K ___, English writer who created the priest-detective Father Brown1021 DownReveal answer → Paying equally, tucked into elevenses522 DownReveal answer → Release A and press middle of stick in complicated cheat code523 DownReveal answer → Form of tinned spaghetti that is rings covered in sauce424 DownReveal answer → River on which Rome stands524 DownReveal answer → President of the Irish Republic from 1959 to 19731326 DownReveal answer → Tune by Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster that gave its name to the 1979 debut album by Madness1327 DownReveal answer → An officer attendant upon the British sovereign729 DownReveal answer → Historical figure known as 'the scourge of God'1230 DownReveal answer → The garden in Jerusalem in which Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion1036 DownReveal answer → Common name for Solanum erianthum, a species of nightshade1037 DownReveal answer → Large genus of flowering plants known as beardtongues938 DownReveal answer → Stage name of the Dutch exotic dancer Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle MacLeod840 DownReveal answer → Uninhabited British island in the North Atlantic, 220 miles west of the Outer Hebrides742 DownReveal answer → A Hindu god who with Vishnu and Shiva constitutes the triad known as the Trimurti646 DownReveal answer → See 61047 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife449 DownReveal answer →

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