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The Independent Crossword June 22 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 106 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword June 22 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
QuarryPREY4Across1 Zest (Informal)ZING4Across3 Small high-pitched fluteFIFE4Across7 Fully-statedEXPLICIT8Across8 Transport lobby called outHAUL4Across8 All-rounder took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut, with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies in 1995DOMINICCORK11Across8 One attached to bottle's taken in by fancy settee for confidential chatsTETEATETES10Across9 See-throughTRANSPARENT11Across9 Actor invoved in a fatal shooting incident on the set of the film RustALECBALDWIN11Across10 Parts regularly given to a stalwart old spear-carrierATLATL6Across10 Getting a point for runs, wipes floor with competitionTHEASHES8Across11 Hot pepperCHILLI6Across11 Ship meals primarily consumed with this person?MESSMATE8Across12 UnproductiveBARREN6Across13 A couple of extra marks possibly given to us in German classUMLAUT6Across14 Small town in the Roman province of Britannia that became BathAQUAESULIS10Across14 Furniture itemCOFFEETABLE11Across15 1956 Elvis Presley hit adapted from the Civil War ballad Aura LeeLOVEMETENDER12Across15 Celebrated Indian bowler possibly embraced by motherMAHATMA7Across16 Former captain of the England rugby union team and the British Lions who became a captain on the BBC quiz show A Question of SportBILLBEAUMONT12Across16 American author whose thrillers include The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All FearsTOMCLANCY9Across18 Moderately wealthyWELLTODO8Across18 Dodgy salesmen ignoring latest viral complaintMEASLES7Across18 Heavy metalLEAD4Across20 See 41WHITENOISE10Across20 Hires reins after horse has boltedLEASES6Across21 Kept in custodyHELD4Across21 French Prime Minister, 1906-09 and 1917-20, known as "Le Tigre"GEORGESCLEMENCEAU17Across21 PalMATE4Across22 Completed maths problems involving area for things with segmentsSATSUMAS8Across23 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz LangMETROPOLIS10Across25 Checks out female beasts of burden?ASSESSES8Across25 American record producer who has won Grammy Awards for his work with Steve Winwood and Eric ClaptonRUSSTITELMAN12Across26 Confirm where fans of 11 may be foundATTEST6Across27 Irish dramatist whose plays include The Rivals and School for ScandalRICHARDBRINSLEYSHERIDAN23Across28 Suspect tame as hell in spite of everythingALLTHESAME10Across29 Flightless birds in muddle not using wingsEMUS4Across30 Actor who married Ally McBeal actress Calista Flockhart in 2010HARRISONFORD12Across33 Familiar name for France's representative at the Congress of Vienna in 1815TALLEYRAND10Across36 Official body on matters pertaining to the French language, established in 1635 by Cardinal RichelieuACADEMIEFRANCAISE17Across39 Sound that has a relatively wide continuous range of frequencies of uniform intensityWHITENOISE10Across41 The process of combining objects or ideas into a complex wholeSYNTHESIS9Across43 American TV soap opera that followed the lives of the Capwell family from 1984 to 1993SANTABARBARA12Across44 Senior RAF officer of equivalent rank to brigadier in the ArmyAIRCOMMODORE12Across46 Actor and director who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Good Will HuntingBENAFFLECK10Across48 American actor and comedian whose films include Elf and AnchormanWILLFERRELL11Across50 A corrosion-resistant alloy used in coinsCUPRONICKEL11Across51

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"Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha" in a novel by Miguel de CervantesDONQUIXOTE10Down1 Stop evil AI getting back to planetHALT4Down1 Cricket fielding positionPOINT5Down1 1871 opera by Verdi commissioned by the Khedive of EgyptAIDA4Down2 Completely lost, having ruined atlas with aleALLATSEA8Down2 Stare at (Informal)EYEBALL7Down2 A type of pale beer with a strong flavour of hops, originally brewed in the Czech RepublicPILSNER7Down3 A certain McCartney reported to do with the starsSTELLA6Down3 Toothed fastenerZIP3Down3 The largest inland city in CaliforniaFRESNO6Down4 Saint given a day? FiguresSTATUES7Down4 IngenuousNAIVE5Down4 Relative of husky bloke unable to speakMALEMUTE8Down5 Fortress in Paris stormed on 14 July 1789 during the French RevolutionBASTILLE8Down5 SweatPERSPIRE8Down5 HalluxBIGTOE6Down6 The supreme creator god in Norse mythologyODIN4Down6 Prickly plant beginning to tickle one under canvasTEASEL6Down6 1990 film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same nameMISERY6Down7 Crossword setter copied and pasted some online contentMEME4Down7 Pop group with which Boy George found fameCULTURECLUB11Down9 FundamentallyATBOTTOM8Down10 The third book of the Old TestamentLEVITICUS9Down11 A rich soft creamy French cheese named after a village in NormandyCAMEMBERT9Down12 Computer criminalHACKER6Down12 Academy Award-winning film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl BernsteinALLTHEPRESIDENTSMEN19Down13 Cheer's echo not appearing after expected intervalELATE5Down13 German measlesRUBELLA7Down14 Group of theologians involved in rulemakingULEMA5Down15 UntrueFALSE5Down16 Rub outERASE5Down17 Those inspiring works capturing tastes now and thenMUSTSEES8Down17 2000 Amy Heckerling romantic comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg KinnearLOSER5Down17 ElderlyOLD3Down19 Endeavour and others latch onto leads from the least expected sourcesSHUTTLES8Down19 Otto ___, founder of the Vienna Philharmonic best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of WindsorNICOLAI7Down19 Two large countries turning on Luxembourg in predictable wayASUSUAL7Down20 Sanskrit term for an accomplished and enlightened personRISHI5Down22 Methuselah repeatedly shelled out for professional solverSLEUTH6Down22 Jordan's only seaportAQABA5Down23 Selection of items arranged by caddy, might you say?TEASET6Down24 Pop group led by brothers Ron and Russell MaelSPARKS6Down24 Old sailor that barnacle clings to?SALT4Down26 In ancient Greece, the chief city of Boeotia, destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BCTHEBES6Down27 Stomach's turned by lewd materialSMUT4Down28 The father of Jacob and Esau in the Old TestamentISAAC5Down29 A naturally-occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches that has a blood anticoagulant propertyHIRUDIN7Down30 A run not scored off the bat in cricketEXTRA5Down31 Novel by George Eliot subtitled The Weaver of RaveloeSILASMARNER11Down32 Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922NIELSBOHR9Down34 Brian ___, the highest try scorer of all time in Irish RugbyODRISCOLL9Down35 Song by Amy Winehouse that was a top ten hit in both the UK and the USREHAB5Down37 The ___, ballet with a score by Tchaikovsky given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1892NUTCRACKER10Down38 American rapper born Stanley Kirk Burrell in 1962MCHAMMER8Down40 Prefecture-level city in Henan province that is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of ChinaKAIFENG7Down42 American rock band featuring Randy California and his stepfather Ed CassidySPIRIT6Down43 Town west of the River Jordan near the site of ancient ShechemNABLUS6Down45 The most populous city in southwest ColombiaCALI4Down47 1982 novel by Shirley ConranLACE4Down49

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 22, 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.