The Independent Crossword June 1 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 106 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 106 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 1 2024. 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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Cutlery item41 AcrossReveal answer → Growths on skin54 AcrossReveal answer → Stipulate78 AcrossReveal answer → Absurd innovator, one running supermarket with time off78 AcrossReveal answer → Outside broadcast fronted by Frank79 AcrossReveal answer → Narrow recess49 AcrossReveal answer → Line snorted by PM's secretary in wellness facility910 AcrossReveal answer → The quantity of liquid lost from a container due to leakage or evaporation610 AcrossReveal answer → Affectionate1110 AcrossReveal answer → Italian composer whose works include the suites The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome1611 AcrossReveal answer → Not wholly backing Odysseus's imminent release511 AcrossReveal answer → Recipe - let it be for Wagamama dish512 AcrossReveal answer → Former pupils613 AcrossReveal answer → Heavenly614 AcrossReveal answer → German or Chinese food, mostly hot914 AcrossReveal answer → American actor whose films include Some Like It Hot, Spartacus and The Boston Strangler1014 AcrossReveal answer → Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in 18791115 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely tense part of Lorraine's occupation715 AcrossReveal answer → Somnambulist1116 AcrossReveal answer → See 271616 AcrossReveal answer → Disengagement on the left during prosperous time717 AcrossReveal answer → 1980s Channel 4 TV series starring Peter Bowles as Major Yeates1017 AcrossReveal answer → An amateur, pirouetting Spice Girl is OK918 AcrossReveal answer → Handsome youth in Greek mythology who was loved by Aphrodite618 AcrossReveal answer → Actors in a play419 AcrossReveal answer → Moral tale720 AcrossReveal answer → It's believed Conservative Party admits hesitation after U-turn520 AcrossReveal answer → American jazz drummer hired to play in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra in 1938920 AcrossReveal answer → Colour521 AcrossReveal answer → European leader not primarily a numbers whizz521 AcrossReveal answer → Stupidly miss grasping flipping fancy bit of logic922 AcrossReveal answer → Very hard brittle bluish-white metal with the atomic number 76622 AcrossReveal answer → Food (Informal)422 AcrossReveal answer → Bird also called a green plover or pewit724 AcrossReveal answer → Bet news ends with a bit of cricket?724 AcrossReveal answer → Bending fine classical laws, one's charged725 AcrossReveal answer → British music hall song written by Charles Collins, Fred E Terry and E A Sheppard for Harry Champion1025 AcrossReveal answer → French couturier who popularised trousers for women1627 AcrossReveal answer → A set of transparencies of facial characteristics that can be used to build up a picture of a person sought by the police929 AcrossReveal answer → Instrument formerly used to measure the altitude of stars and planets and as a navigational aid930 AcrossReveal answer → Nicolas __, British-born director whose films include Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth435 AcrossReveal answer → Host who introduced the Beatles to American TV audiences in February 19641037 AcrossReveal answer → The Greatest ___, 2017 musical film starring Hugh Jackman as P T Barnum738 AcrossReveal answer → See 431239 AcrossReveal answer → Horse that halted Red Rum's winning run at the Grand National in 1975941 AcrossReveal answer → Ethiopian athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Olympics, known as "the Shifter"1243 AcrossReveal answer → The largest city in Louisiana1044 AcrossReveal answer → Play by Harold Pinter first performed in April 19601247 AcrossReveal answer → Dutch actor who played replicant Roy Batty in the 1982 film Blade Runner1149 AcrossReveal answer → US sitcom that launched the career of Michael J Fox1051 AcrossReveal answer → Small seabird that is the only member of the genus Halocyptena1652 AcrossReveal answer → Character in the BBC sitcom Blackadder II played by Patsy Byrne653 AcrossReveal answer →

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Pavlova maybe divine nourishment without topping41 DownReveal answer → 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino121 DownReveal answer → Old ballet star has newly put on a lot of weight62 DownReveal answer → A subatomic particle with a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton62 DownReveal answer → Hindrance82 DownReveal answer → Bloodsucker's fleshy bum prodded by soldiers83 DownReveal answer → Remain silent73 DownReveal answer → 1988 film starring Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell143 DownReveal answer → African cartographers going up country there64 DownReveal answer → For what reason?34 DownReveal answer → Diminutive hero of several English folk tales whose name was used by Charles Stratton in P T Barnum's circus84 DownReveal answer → American soul singer who died in a plane crash a month before his biggest hit, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, was released115 DownReveal answer → Scope55 DownReveal answer → Dasher, say, losing energy lapping male jogger?85 DownReveal answer → Former Essex wicketkeeper and captain nicknamed "Tonker"116 DownReveal answer → Retail establishment46 DownReveal answer → One may get played in reportedly immoral scam106 DownReveal answer → Subsidiary interest87 DownReveal answer → Young salmon which returns to fresh water after one winter in the sea67 DownReveal answer → Berks place meat lacking taste under cut vegetables147 DownReveal answer → Cost of succeeding is certain in the fixed American vote148 DownReveal answer → David Bowie's seventh studio album, made up of covers68 DownReveal answer → The Cambodian communist party which seized power in a civil war in 1975109 DownReveal answer → Type of star811 DownReveal answer → Improper812 DownReveal answer → Character in the Matrix film series played by Keanu Reeves312 DownReveal answer → In music, a brisk lively movement whose name means 'joke' in Italian713 DownReveal answer → Doctor of football team receiving tiny bit of cash tardily1013 DownReveal answer → Fluent715 DownReveal answer → Couples starting new, optimal relationships need rubber816 DownReveal answer → Speaking plainly about uniform put on two genders in the fuzz817 DownReveal answer → Turning tool517 DownReveal answer → An electronic valve with three electrodes617 DownReveal answer → Pointed tooth418 DownReveal answer → Asian sailor's article for Vegas vehicle619 DownReveal answer → BBC news and current affairs programme first broadcast in 1980919 DownReveal answer → To begin with, Chelsea fan weed on the turf?620 DownReveal answer → Writing implement320 DownReveal answer → An opinion or doctrine contrary to the orthodox tenets of a church621 DownReveal answer → Flag virtual helper raised423 DownReveal answer → In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigold923 DownReveal answer → The northernmost county of England1426 DownReveal answer → A book of the texts used in Mass throughout the year628 DownReveal answer → 1953 John Huston film, written with Truman Capote, intended as a parody of The Maltese Falcon1231 DownReveal answer → Male orca at SeaWorld San Diego in California captured in Iceland in 1980632 DownReveal answer → Irish actor whose roles include Ross Poldark in the most recent BBC adaptation of Poldark and Kíli in The Hobbit film series1133 DownReveal answer → 1965 Bob Dylan single from the album Bringing It All Back Home1134 DownReveal answer → English actor whose films include Women in Love, Castaway and Gladiator1036 DownReveal answer → Birds of the Old World family Coraciidae740 DownReveal answer → Sam ___, American actor best known for playing Sam Merlotte in True Blood842 DownReveal answer → Of an angle, lying between 90 and 180 degrees645 DownReveal answer → The sixth-largest city in Israel646 DownReveal answer → Muscular vessel that conveys oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body648 DownReveal answer → Industrial city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, on the Danube350 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.