The Independent Crossword June 20 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 20 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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Animal's foot31 AcrossReveal answer → Mog hugging Republican after rally? Not his type!81 AcrossReveal answer → Wanderer53 AcrossReveal answer → Fear of Asian soup mostly prejudice65 AcrossReveal answer → Surrender47 AcrossReveal answer → Consistently accurate88 AcrossReveal answer → Complete ogre sorted quickly79 AcrossReveal answer → Huge dinosaur109 AcrossReveal answer → Belt out maybe with rented vest710 AcrossReveal answer → Present president's take on English county1311 AcrossReveal answer → Reproductive cell612 AcrossReveal answer → US state whose capital is Phoenix712 AcrossReveal answer → 1932 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Quincy Adams Wagstaff1313 AcrossReveal answer → A huge cruise stop?513 AcrossReveal answer → Dazed state613 AcrossReveal answer → Blondie number one single that is the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo614 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Kyiv715 AcrossReveal answer → Thriving1015 AcrossReveal answer → Conductor to choose right composition915 AcrossReveal answer → In the Old Testament, one of the "cities of the plain" destroyed by God, along with Sodom and two others816 AcrossReveal answer → Endless amusement with setter setting917 AcrossReveal answer → Camberwell-born actress and director who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in They Drive by Night and High Sierra917 AcrossReveal answer → Highest point818 AcrossReveal answer → Mix up introductory letter from bank and loan518 AcrossReveal answer → Aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia whose leaves trap minute aquatic animals1118 AcrossReveal answer → Cheesy samples arranged in French way1319 AcrossReveal answer → Provoke420 AcrossReveal answer → The large North American deer Alces alces520 AcrossReveal answer → Dutch city associated with the 1713 treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession721 AcrossReveal answer → Characteristic feature521 AcrossReveal answer → The large feline mammal Panthera onca622 AcrossReveal answer → Flatfish322 AcrossReveal answer → Regularly disappearing in nature, or into prayer724 AcrossReveal answer → The dictator of Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four1025 AcrossReveal answer → Tea grader outwardly shunned pretence725 AcrossReveal answer → Cattle securing tails on violently passing gas626 AcrossReveal answer → Footballer essentially out for each uncovered runner827 AcrossReveal answer → A round-ended spatula with a thin flexible blade used by painters1228 AcrossReveal answer → The standard monetary unit of Thailand430 AcrossReveal answer → Formula One World Champion in 1952 and 19531331 AcrossReveal answer → Modernist novel by Wyndham Lewis first serialised in The Egoist from April 1916 to November 1917433 AcrossReveal answer → 1959 British film based on a novel of the same name by John Braine1234 AcrossReveal answer → Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant1036 AcrossReveal answer → American medical sitcom that ran from 2001 to 2010637 AcrossReveal answer → One of Tamora's sons in Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus739 AcrossReveal answer → Fielding position in cricket at right angles to the batsman on the off side540 AcrossReveal answer → Song by The Everly Brothers that topped the charts for several weeks in 1960 on both sides of the Atlantic1144 AcrossReveal answer → The bird Haliaeetus leucocephalus of North America946 AcrossReveal answer → American fish of the genus Prionotus848 AcrossReveal answer → Character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations adopted and raised by Miss Havisham749 AcrossReveal answer → River that rises in Derbyshire and flows to the Irish Sea through a large estuary on which Liverpool stands650 AcrossReveal answer → 1986 number one single for Diana Ross that was written by the Bee Gees1351 AcrossReveal answer → Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum752 AcrossReveal answer →

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Produce weapon and charge around41 DownReveal answer → Toxic metallic element with the atomic number 2381 DownReveal answer → Quarry41 DownReveal answer → Compost often coats landscaper's nose52 DownReveal answer → English musician and record producer best known for his work on Madonna's 1998 album Ray of Light122 DownReveal answer → Persuade by flattery72 DownReveal answer → Strange erect gait that could harm your health93 DownReveal answer → The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist83 DownReveal answer → Regret33 DownReveal answer → Zodiac sign54 DownReveal answer → Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl Marx74 DownReveal answer → Curry house potatoes, fine cold54 DownReveal answer → Repudiate85 DownReveal answer → 1937 film starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt105 DownReveal answer → Brightly-coloured venomous Asian snake of the genus Bungarus56 DownReveal answer → Crush86 DownReveal answer → People working both sides of Harrods?56 DownReveal answer → City in California near Los Angeles famous for film stars' homes127 DownReveal answer → Brummie dish with added port97 DownReveal answer → Manny ___, character in Modern Family played by Rico Rodriguez78 DownReveal answer → They're confused with data set108 DownReveal answer → Formerly in golf, a situation in which an opponent’s ball is blocking another's line to the hole on the green69 DownReveal answer → Use a browser link, looking up excessive amount710 DownReveal answer → Irish radio and TV broadcaster who died in 20161010 DownReveal answer → Up810 DownReveal answer → Small town at the northern end of the West Cumberland Coalfield811 DownReveal answer → Nudist811 DownReveal answer → Top star of opera cut over drink1012 DownReveal answer → Claimed714 DownReveal answer → Rock frontman eviscerated legally with conviction914 DownReveal answer → Person booted from Genesis before others peak715 DownReveal answer → Flat tuba ultimately ruined live set for diners916 DownReveal answer → Snaking dance516 DownReveal answer → Young sheep417 DownReveal answer → Feline319 DownReveal answer → Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Thames whose most famous race is the King George VI Chase run every Boxing Day1119 DownReveal answer → Given face down520 DownReveal answer → Current ruptures your once capsized boat521 DownReveal answer → Swedish-American labour activist and songwriter whose songs include There Is Power in a Union722 DownReveal answer → Quiet thing taking animals from the water?522 DownReveal answer → South American Indians who at the time of the Spanish conquest occupied the high valleys surrounding the modern cities of Bogotá and Tunja in Colombia723 DownReveal answer → Survive with bit of cereal423 DownReveal answer → Australian name for stewed kangaroo flavoured with pork724 DownReveal answer → An insect in its adult form526 DownReveal answer → Manuel ___, Spanish tennis player who won the US Open in 1975727 DownReveal answer → 1996 Coen Brothers film for which Frances McDormand won a Best Actress Oscar529 DownReveal answer → Child prodigy who graduated from Oxford University in 1985 at the age of 131232 DownReveal answer → Novel by J P Donleavy first published in Paris in 19551233 DownReveal answer → Another name for a harmonica1035 DownReveal answer → Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girl1036 DownReveal answer → Lion in the TV series Daktari838 DownReveal answer → Region of NW Italy whose chief town is Turin840 DownReveal answer → Second studio album by Radiohead841 DownReveal answer → Town in County Tipperary whose name means "honey meadow"742 DownReveal answer → TV series created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on her one-woman show first performed in 2013743 DownReveal answer → ___ Park, Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica645 DownReveal answer → A nocturnal, two-headed giant in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game547 DownReveal answer →

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