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The Independent Crossword June 1 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 106 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword June 1 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 106 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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Cutlery itemFORK4Across1 Growths on skinWARTS5Across4 StipulateSPECIFY7Across8 Absurd innovator, one running supermarket with time offIONESCO7Across8 Outside broadcast fronted by FrankOPENAIR7Across9 Narrow recessNOOK4Across9 Line snorted by PM's secretary in wellness facilityHEALTHSPA9Across10 The quantity of liquid lost from a container due to leakage or evaporationULLAGE6Across10 AffectionateWARMHEARTED11Across10 Italian composer whose works include the suites The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of RomeOTTORINORESPIGHI16Across11 Not wholly backing Odysseus's imminent releaseISSUE5Across11 Recipe - let it be for Wagamama dishRAMEN5Across12 Former pupilsALUMNI6Across13 HeavenlyDIVINE6Across14 German or Chinese food, mostly hotFRIEDRICH9Across14 American actor whose films include Some Like It Hot, Spartacus and The Boston StranglerTONYCURTIS10Across14 Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in 1879ADOLLSHOUSE11Across15 Extremely tense part of Lorraine's occupationTENANCY7Across15 SomnambulistSLEEPWALKER11Across16 See 27YVESSAINTLAURENT16Across16 Disengagement on the left during prosperous timeBOREDOM7Across17 1980s Channel 4 TV series starring Peter Bowles as Major YeatesTHEIRISHRM10Across17 An amateur, pirouetting Spice Girl is OKNOPROBLEM9Across18 Handsome youth in Greek mythology who was loved by AphroditeADONIS6Across18 Actors in a playCAST4Across19 Moral talePARABLE7Across20 It's believed Conservative Party admits hesitation after U-turnCREDO5Across20 American jazz drummer hired to play in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra in 1938BUDDYRICH9Across20 ColourGREEN5Across21 European leader not primarily a numbers whizzEULER5Across21 Stupidly miss grasping flipping fancy bit of logicSYLLOGISM9Across22 Very hard brittle bluish-white metal with the atomic number 76OSMIUM6Across22 Food (Informal)EATS4Across22 Bird also called a green plover or pewitLAPWING7Across24 Bet news ends with a bit of cricket?ANTENNA7Across24 Bending fine classical laws, one's chargedFLEXION7Across25 British music hall song written by Charles Collins, Fred E Terry and E A Sheppard for Harry ChampionANYOLDIRON10Across25 French couturier who popularised trousers for womenYVESSAINTLAURENT16Across27 A set of transparencies of facial characteristics that can be used to build up a picture of a person sought by the policeIDENTIKIT9Across29 Instrument formerly used to measure the altitude of stars and planets and as a navigational aidASTROLABE9Across30 Nicolas __, British-born director whose films include Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to EarthROEG4Across35 Host who introduced the Beatles to American TV audiences in February 1964EDSULLIVAN10Across37 The Greatest ___, 2017 musical film starring Hugh Jackman as P T BarnumSHOWMAN7Across38 See 43MIRUTSYIFTER12Across39 Horse that halted Red Rum's winning run at the Grand National in 1975LESCARGOT9Across41 Ethiopian athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Olympics, known as "the Shifter"MIRUTSYIFTER12Across43 The largest city in LouisianaNEWORLEANS10Across44 Play by Harold Pinter first performed in April 1960THECARETAKER12Across47 Dutch actor who played replicant Roy Batty in the 1982 film Blade RunnerRUTGERHAUER11Across49 US sitcom that launched the career of Michael J FoxFAMILYTIES10Across51 Small seabird that is the only member of the genus HalocyptenaLEASTSTORMPETREL16Across52 Character in the BBC sitcom Blackadder II played by Patsy ByrneNURSIE6Across53

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Pavlova maybe divine nourishment without toppingANNA4Down1 1922 silent film starring Rudolph ValentinoBLOODANDSAND12Down1 Old ballet star has newly put on a lot of weightASHTON6Down2 A subatomic particle with a mass equal to or greater than that of a protonBARYON6Down2 HindranceOBSTACLE8Down2 Bloodsucker's fleshy bum prodded by soldiersHORSEFLY8Down3 Remain silentKEEPMUM7Down3 1988 film starring Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt RussellTEQUILASUNRISE14Down3 African cartographers going up country thereSOMALI6Down4 For what reason?WHY3Down4 Diminutive hero of several English folk tales whose name was used by Charles Stratton in P T Barnum's circusTOMTHUMB8Down4 American soul singer who died in a plane crash a month before his biggest hit, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, was releasedOTISREDDING11Down5 ScopeRANGE5Down5 Dasher, say, losing energy lapping male jogger?REMINDER8Down5 Former Essex wicketkeeper and captain nicknamed "Tonker"BRIANTAYLOR11Down6 Retail establishmentSHOP4Down6 One may get played in reportedly immoral scamBASSFIDDLE10Down6 Subsidiary interestSIDELINE8Down7 Young salmon which returns to fresh water after one winter in the seaGRILSE6Down7 Berks place meat lacking taste under cut vegetablesGREENHAMCOMMON14Down7 Cost of succeeding is certain in the fixed American voteINHERITANCETAX14Down8 David Bowie's seventh studio album, made up of coversPINUPS6Down8 The Cambodian communist party which seized power in a civil war in 1975KHMERROUGE10Down9 Type of starREDDWARF8Down11 ImproperINDECENT8Down12 Character in the Matrix film series played by Keanu ReevesNEO3Down12 In music, a brisk lively movement whose name means 'joke' in ItalianSCHERZO7Down13 Doctor of football team receiving tiny bit of cash tardilyMANIPULATE10Down13 FluentVOLUBLE7Down15 Couples starting new, optimal relationships need rubberNEOPRENE8Down16 Speaking plainly about uniform put on two genders in the fuzzBUMFLUFF8Down17 Turning toolLATHE5Down17 An electronic valve with three electrodesTRIODE6Down17 Pointed toothFANG4Down18 Asian sailor's article for Vegas vehicleLASCAR6Down19 BBC news and current affairs programme first broadcast in 1980NEWSNIGHT9Down19 To begin with, Chelsea fan weed on the turf?CLOVER6Down20 Writing implementPEN3Down20 An opinion or doctrine contrary to the orthodox tenets of a churchHERESY6Down21 Flag virtual helper raisedIRIS4Down23 In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigoldMAYFLOWER9Down23 The northernmost county of EnglandNORTHUMBERLAND14Down26 A book of the texts used in Mass throughout the yearMISSAL6Down28 1953 John Huston film, written with Truman Capote, intended as a parody of The Maltese FalconBEATTHEDEVIL12Down31 Male orca at SeaWorld San Diego in California captured in Iceland in 1980ULISES6Down32 Irish actor whose roles include Ross Poldark in the most recent BBC adaptation of Poldark and Kíli in The Hobbit film seriesAIDANTURNER11Down33 1965 Bob Dylan single from the album Bringing It All Back HomeMAGGIESFARM11Down34 English actor whose films include Women in Love, Castaway and GladiatorOLIVERREED10Down36 Birds of the Old World family CoraciidaeROLLERS7Down40 Sam ___, American actor best known for playing Sam Merlotte in True BloodTRAMMELL8Down42 Of an angle, lying between 90 and 180 degreesOBTUSE6Down45 The sixth-largest city in IsraelASHDOD6Down46 Muscular vessel that conveys oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the bodyARTERY6Down48 Industrial city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, on the DanubeULM3Down50

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 1, 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.