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The Independent Crossword June 20 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword June 20 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 110 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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Animal's footPAW3Across1 Mog hugging Republican after rally? Not his type!DEMOCRAT8Across1 WandererROVER5Across3 Fear of Asian soup mostly prejudicePHOBIA6Across5 SurrenderCEDE4Across7 Consistently accurateUNERRING8Across8 Complete ogre sorted quicklyALLEGRO7Across9 Huge dinosaurDIPLODOCUS10Across9 Belt out maybe with rented vestSINGLET7Across10 Present president's take on English countyHEREFORDSHIRE13Across11 Reproductive cellGAMETE6Across12 US state whose capital is PhoenixARIZONA7Across12 1932 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Quincy Adams WagstaffHORSEFEATHERS13Across13 A huge cruise stop?AVAST5Across13 Dazed stateTRANCE6Across13 Blondie number one single that is the theme to the 1980 film American GigoloCALLME6Across14 Country whose capital is KyivUKRAINE7Across15 ThrivingSUCCESSFUL10Across15 Conductor to choose right compositionELECTRODE9Across15 In the Old Testament, one of the "cities of the plain" destroyed by God, along with Sodom and two othersGOMORRAH8Across16 Endless amusement with setter settingPLACEMENT9Across17 Camberwell-born actress and director who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in They Drive by Night and High SierraIDALUPINO9Across17 Highest pointPINNACLE8Across18 Mix up introductory letter from bank and loanBLEND5Across18 Aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia whose leaves trap minute aquatic animalsBLADDERWORT11Across18 Cheesy samples arranged in French wayCHAMPSELYSEES13Across19 ProvokeGOAD4Across20 The large North American deer Alces alcesMOOSE5Across20 Dutch city associated with the 1713 treaty that ended the War of the Spanish SuccessionUTRECHT7Across21 Characteristic featureTRAIT5Across21 The large feline mammal Panthera oncaJAGUAR6Across22 FlatfishDAB3Across22 Regularly disappearing in nature, or into prayerINTROIT7Across24 The dictator of Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-FourBIGBROTHER10Across25 Tea grader outwardly shunned pretenceCHARADE7Across25 Cattle securing tails on violently passing gasOXYGEN6Across26 Footballer essentially out for each uncovered runnerSTREAKER8Across27 A round-ended spatula with a thin flexible blade used by paintersPALETTEKNIFE12Across28 The standard monetary unit of ThailandBAHT4Across30 Formula One World Champion in 1952 and 1953ALBERTOASCARI13Across31 Modernist novel by Wyndham Lewis first serialised in The Egoist from April 1916 to November 1917TARR4Across33 1959 British film based on a novel of the same name by John BraineROOMATTHETOP12Across34 Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchantTHEBLUEBOY10Across36 American medical sitcom that ran from 2001 to 2010SCRUBS6Across37 One of Tamora's sons in Shakespeare's play Titus AndronicusALARBUS7Across39 Fielding position in cricket at right angles to the batsman on the off sidePOINT5Across40 Song by The Everly Brothers that topped the charts for several weeks in 1960 on both sides of the AtlanticCATHYSCLOWN11Across44 The bird Haliaeetus leucocephalus of North AmericaBALDEAGLE9Across46 American fish of the genus PrionotusSEAROBIN8Across48 Character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations adopted and raised by Miss HavishamESTELLA7Across49 River that rises in Derbyshire and flows to the Irish Sea through a large estuary on which Liverpool standsMERSEY6Across50 1986 number one single for Diana Ross that was written by the Bee GeesCHAINREACTION13Across51 Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter born Alisa Zinovyevna RosenbaumAYNRAND7Across52

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Produce weapon and charge aroundDRAW4Down1 Toxic metallic element with the atomic number 23VANADIUM8Down1 QuarryPREY4Down1 Compost often coats landscaper's noseMULCH5Down2 English musician and record producer best known for his work on Madonna's 1998 album Ray of LightWILLIAMORBIT12Down2 Persuade by flatteryWHEEDLE7Down2 Strange erect gait that could harm your healthCIGARETTE9Down3 The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can existMOLECULE8Down3 RegretRUE3Down3 Zodiac signVIRGO5Down4 Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl MarxBAKUNIN7Down4 Curry house potatoes, fine coldALOOF5Down4 RepudiateRENOUNCE8Down5 1937 film starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham MoffattOHMRPORTER10Down5 Brightly-coloured venomous Asian snake of the genus BungarusKRAIT5Down6 CrushSUPPRESS8Down6 People working both sides of Harrods?HANDS5Down6 City in California near Los Angeles famous for film stars' homesBEVERLYHILLS12Down7 Brummie dish with added portBALTIMORE9Down7 Manny ___, character in Modern Family played by Rico RodriguezDELGADO7Down8 They're confused with data setATTHEREADY10Down8 Formerly in golf, a situation in which an opponent’s ball is blocking another's line to the hole on the greenSTYMIE6Down9 Use a browser link, looking up excessive amountSURFEIT7Down10 Irish radio and TV broadcaster who died in 2016TERRYWOGAN10Down10 UpOUTOFBED8Down10 Small town at the northern end of the West Cumberland CoalfieldASPATRIA8Down11 NudistNATURIST8Down11 Top star of opera cut over drinkCAPPUCCINO10Down12 ClaimedALLEGED7Down14 Rock frontman eviscerated legally with convictionADAMANTLY9Down14 Person booted from Genesis before others peakEVEREST7Down15 Flat tuba ultimately ruined live set for dinersTABLEWARE9Down16 Snaking danceCONGA5Down16 Young sheepLAMB4Down17 FelineCAT3Down19 Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Thames whose most famous race is the King George VI Chase run every Boxing DayKEMPTONPARK11Down19 Given face downPRONE5Down20 Current ruptures your once capsized boatYACHT5Down21 Swedish-American labour activist and songwriter whose songs include There Is Power in a UnionJOEHILL7Down22 Quiet thing taking animals from the water?SHARK5Down22 South American Indians who at the time of the Spanish conquest occupied the high valleys surrounding the modern cities of Bogotá and Tunja in ColombiaCHIBCHA7Down23 Survive with bit of cerealWEAR4Down23 Australian name for stewed kangaroo flavoured with porkSTEAMER7Down24 An insect in its adult formIMAGO5Down26 Manuel ___, Spanish tennis player who won the US Open in 1975ORANTES7Down27 1996 Coen Brothers film for which Frances McDormand won a Best Actress OscarFARGO5Down29 Child prodigy who graduated from Oxford University in 1985 at the age of 13RUTHLAWRENCE12Down32 Novel by J P Donleavy first published in Paris in 1955THEGINGERMAN12Down33 Another name for a harmonicaMOUTHORGAN10Down35 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girlTHUMBELINA10Down36 Lion in the TV series DaktariCLARENCE8Down38 Region of NW Italy whose chief town is TurinPIEDMONT8Down40 Second studio album by RadioheadTHEBENDS8Down41 Town in County Tipperary whose name means "honey meadow"CLONMEL7Down42 TV series created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on her one-woman show first performed in 2013FLEABAG7Down43 ___ Park, Test cricket ground in Kingston, JamaicaSABINA6Down45 A nocturnal, two-headed giant in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing gameETTIN5Down47

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 20, 2026. 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.