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The Independent Crossword July 20 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword July 20 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 112 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#
PostMAIL4Across1 Quantity of paperQUIRE5Across3 What nutmeg grater has done for breakfast itemPOACHEDEGG10Across7 Plant used in cosmeticsALOEVERA8Across7 Pig meatPORK4Across8 Retributory actionRETALIATION11Across9 Actress best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the TV series Charlie's AngelsCHERYLLADD10Across9 South African facilities for captive animals, might you say?ZULU4Across9 Record I request, ultimately wanting soundLOGICAL7Across11 Actor who played Captain Renault in the 1942 film CasablancaCLAUDERAINS11Across11 Reckon tours about to happen - very soon?TONIGHT7Across12 Think logicallyREASON6Across12 Number one repeated, afraid last on card essential for bingo!WINNERWINNERCHICKENDINNER25Across13 See 21NOSE4Across14 Comedian and actor whose TV roles include playing Jimmy Savile in the BBC One series The ReckoningSTEVECOOGAN11Across14 DestroyedRUINED6Across14 Horse that won the 1958 DerbyHARDRIDDEN10Across15 Cut off vegetable, typical examplePAR3Across15 Domestic hardwareIRONMONGERY11Across15 The brightest star in the constellation VirgoSPICA5Across16 Greek character, inspiring talker shut upMUTED5Across17 Animated children's TV series by Grange Calveley and Bob GodfreyROOBARB7Across17 ChessmanPAWN4Across18 Knees-up after a song and danceADO3Across18 The horizontal or x-coordinate of a point in a two-dimensional system of Cartesian coordinatesABSCISSA8Across18 Spanish soupGAZPACHO8Across19 Full name of the condition CJDCREUTZFELDTJAKOBDISEASE23Across19 Nappy back in John?TERRY5Across19 Hack or bug?NAG3Across20 LustreSHEEN5Across21 Sudden drop seen with void when flyingNOSE4Across21 FlatfishSOLE4Across22 See 13WINNERWINNERCHICKENDINNER25Across22 Junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force equivalent to a Lieutenant in the British Army or the Royal MarinesFLYINGOFFICER13Across24 One's filling stuffs a turkey in European cityANTWERP7Across25 The rare Eurasian plover Eudromias morinellusDOTTEREL8Across26 Handcuffs piggy individual hasn't got on!HAMPERS7Across26 The same doctor cut backIDEM4Across27 The capital of LebanonBEIRUT6Across27 Bevvied Australian, dancing and making whoopeeSATURNALIA10Across28 Spheroidal anatomical structure protected by the scleraEYEBALL7Across30 See 50BICARBONATEOFSODA17Across32 City that is capital of the French region of OccitanieTOULOUSE8Across35 Irish actor who played James Bond in four films between 1995 and 2002PIERCEBROSNAN13Across36 1969 Sydney Pollack film starring Michael Sarrazin, Gig Young and Jane FondaTHEYSHOOTHORSESDONTTHEY23Across39 Small pieces of coloured paper thrown on festive occasions, from the Italian for bonbonsCONFETTI8Across41 1977 Don Siegel spy film starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee RemickTELEFON7Across44 An event or act used to justify a warCASUSBELLI10Across47 Flemish painter whose most famous work is the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb in GhentJANVANEYCK10Across48 White crystalline soluble compound whose formula is NaHCO3BICARBONATEOFSODA17Across50 See 47CASUSBELLI10Across53 County of in the Republic of Ireland to which the Aran Islands belongGALWAY6Across54 English actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for Separate TablesDAVIDNIVEN10Across55

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Fluid rise complete, predator rampant?UPFLOW6Down1 ___ & Dave, musical duo whose surnames are Hodges and PeacockCHAS4Down1 Seasickness (French)MALDEMER8Down1 Washing going on the line, all thereHANGINGTOGETHER15Down2 Furniture item for use when prayingPRIEDIEU8Down2 Frozen waterICE3Down2 See 13 AcrossWINNERWINNERCHICKENDINNER25Down3 Texan scene of a 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount CarmelWACO4Down3 MercyQUARTER7Down3 Dubious item with talented nun, art - is it?ADULTENTERTAINMENT18Down4 Tempo marking indicating that music is to be played slowlyADAGIO6Down4 Getting betterIMPROVING9Down4 NoblemanEARL4Down5 Italian author pilloried, lingua vulgaris!LUIGIPIRANDELLO15Down5 American actress who won Emmy awards for playing Jill Brock in the TV series Picket FencesKATHYBAKER10Down5 Military capKEPI4Down6 Saucy American oath arising in vacuous countryCUSTARDY8Down6 Local government district of West Sussex created in 1974ADUR4Down6 1982 Richard Attenborough film starring Ben Kingsley in the title roleGANDHI6Down7 BBC drama series about student nurses which ran from 1975 to 1983ANGELS6Down8 Bin moved to fridgeGETRIDOF8Down8 American golfer who won the US Open in 1993 and 1998LEEJANZEN9Down10 See 4ADULTENTERTAINMENT18Down10 ConfidenceASSURANCE9Down10 Latin American dance usually performed by a number of people in single fileCONGA5Down11 I don't know (Informal)SEARCHME8Down11 Cured Italian ham whose name literally means "dried beforehand"PROSCIUTTO10Down13 Nine-sided figureNONAGON7Down13 Bar raised over fifth and sixth of billiard pocketsMARSUPIA8Down16 A small line at the extremities of a main stroke in a type characterSERIF5Down16 SeepOOZE4Down16 Duck à l'orange?MANDARIN8Down17 Raised platformDAIS4Down17 Global athletic footwear and apparel company, founded in Bolton in 1958, that has been a subsidiary of Adidas since 2005REEBOK6Down17 A morning love song or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawnAUBADE6Down18 Welsh singer-songwriter whose first names are Aimée AnnDUFFY5Down20 FussADO3Down20 Character played by Kiefer Sutherland in the TV series 24JACKBAEUR9Down21 Ralph Waldo ___, American lecturer, essayist and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th centuryEMERSON7Down22 Common name for the drug amphetamineSPEED5Down23 Villain in opera venue discovered after opening of RigolettoRASCAL6Down23 Cold drink containing gasRHEUM5Down24 Area of Birmingham represented in Parliament by Jess Phillips since 2015YARDLEY7Down25 Son of Cain, after whom he named the first city he foundedENOCH5Down28 Fool in Shakespeare's play As You Like It who falls in love with a shepherdess called AudreyTOUCHSTONE10Down29 John ___, English philosopher best known for his Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingLOCKE5Down31 Oil, similar in scent to bergamot, produced from the blossom of the bitter orange treeNEROLI6Down33 City that is the third largest metropolitan area in Nigeria, after Lagos and KanoIBADAN6Down34 The coastal evergreen tree Metrosideros excelsa, which is endemic to New ZealandPOHUTUKAWA10Down36 Electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 by the Suzuki Musical Instrument CorporationOMNICHORD9Down37 Vegetables traditionally served with tatties to accompany haggis as the main course of a Burns supperNEEPS5Down38 Australian island and state whose capital is HobartTASMANIA8Down40 An ancient war engine used for hurling stonesONAGER6Down42 A shantytown in BrazilFAVELA6Down43 One of two corridors in a legislative building in which members voteLOBBY5Down45 Series of poems by Edith Sitwell set to music by William Walton in an "entertainment" first performed in public in 1923FACADE6Down46 The standard monetary unit of ChinaYUAN4Down49 A party for young people, with electronic dance music, sometimes held in a field or disused buildingRAVE4Down51 Thrusting sword used in the only fencing event in which the entire body is the valid target areaEPEE4Down52

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, July 20, 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.