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The Independent Crossword June 27 2026 Answers

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Below are all the The Independent Crossword June 27 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
CharterHIRE4Across1 Wind from the east Portuguese region wiping out half of five hundred, say, in city centreTRAFALGARSQUARE15Across1 Bird's wing partPINION6Across3 Decorative objectORNAMENT8Across7 SkinnyTHIN4Across8 Loveless workers' association introducing tea for freeUNCHAIN7Across9 Cosmetic productMOISTURISER11Across9 Tireless criminal abandons a son for being unproductiveSTERILE7Across10 Colouring stickCRAYON6Across10 Nihilistic artistic movement that took its name from a French children's word for hobbyhorseDADA4Across10 British writer whose children's books include The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway ChildrenENESBIT7Across11 After retirement I see a way of working in US cityOMAHA5Across11 Try to follow lunar astronaut circling earth who's missing in Hampshire townALDERSHOT9Across12 The opening track of The Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky FingersBROWNSUGAR10Across13 Mother or fatherPARENT6Across13 House dependency, conservatory, in the end leaves a markSEMICOLON9Across13 Irish dancer and actress who became mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of LandsfeldLOLAMONTEZ10Across14 Vehicle theft prevention deviceIMMOBILISER11Across15 English actor and singer who played the title role in the original London production of Jesus Christ SuperstarPAULNICHOLAS12Across15 Sign Keir's opponent is losing her head when drinking orange juiceEMOJI5Across15 Wrongly ordered energy drinks, a mistakeLAPSE5Across16 Region of southern Italy at the toe of the Italian PeninsulaCALABRIA8Across16 Criminal activity in team workINSIDEJOB9Across18 A horse race in which the winning horse must be offered for sale at auctionSELLINGPLATE12Across18 Soft fine feathersDOWN4Across19 A mixture of sad and humane but not embarrassedUNASHAMED9Across20 RelaxedLAIDBACK8Across20 Population countCENSUS6Across21 The first wife of Napoleon I and the first Empress of the FrenchJOSEPHINEDEBEAUHARNAIS22Across22 SurrenderCEDE4Across22 Opera stars covering Bob Marley?RASTA5Across23 Right around fireplace is a butterflyRINGLET7Across24 Inferior school shutSCHLOCK7Across25 The capital of BahrainMANAMA6Across25 Anarchic contra not pro FBI's measure of green policyCARBONFOOTPRINT15Across26 Deputy Town Marshal of Tombstone, Arizona who took part in the Gunfight at the OK CorralWYATTEARP9Across27 Species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae commonly called ivyHEDERA6Across29 1971 album by Carole KingTAPESTRY8Across30 Missile used by gauchos and Indians of South AmericaBOLAS5Across32 American actress whose films include Foxy Brown and Jackie BrownPAMGRIER8Across33 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film starring David Hemmings and Vanessa RedgraveBLOWUP6Across35 The fronded plant Thelypteris phegopterisBEECHFERN9Across37 Member of a Native American people whose leaders included Cochise and GeronimoAPACHE6Across38 Thomas Hardy novel whose title comes from Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardFARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWD22Across40 Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984INDIRAGANDHI12Across43 New Zealand city that hosted the 1990 Commonwealth GamesAUCKLAND8Across46 1936 film starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, based on 1101 Park Avenue, a short novel by Eric HatchMYMANGODFREY12Across48 The dictator of Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-FourBIGBROTHER10Across51 Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is AntananarivoMADAGASCAR10Across53 The anti-communist rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the Nicaraguan Sandinista government from 1979 to 1990CONTRAS7Across54 Scottish singer who sang the title song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden GunLULU4Across55

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With added height, being short, this artist would represent three citiesTOULOUSELAUTREC15Down1 Brother of Moses who was the first high priest of the IsraelitesAARON5Down1 Women's quartersHAREM5Down1 Surprisingly AC Milan dropping name for club initially gets praiseACCLAIM7Down2 1951 play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's novel Goodbye to BerlinIAMACAMERA10Down2 That which existsREALITY7Down2 A drapery that’s hard to break is falling down?AVALANCHE9Down3 A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhereCENOTAPH8Down3 Timber support in a coalminePITPROP7Down3 County known as 'The Garden of England'KENT4Down4 A dose of Farage no alternative for the CityGENOA5Down4 ButtocksNATES5Down4 Greek letterOMICRON7Down5 The stirrup-shaped bone that is the innermost of three small bones in the middle earSTAPES6Down5 People like Trump and Putin lacking leadership for members of the local communityRESIDENTS9Down5 AchievementFEAT4Down6 Unconventional rock band dismissive of new record's openingQUEER5Down6 Liverpudlian comedian on whose life Bradley Cooper's 2025 film Is This Thing On? is loosely basedJOHNBISHOP10Down6 Symptom of a cold caught an hour after noon - go away!ATISHOO7Down7 British investment company that bought a controlling stake in Tottenham Hotspur from Alan Sugar in 2001ENIC4Down7 In Roman tradition, the queen of the Olympian godsJUNO4Down8 Exciting comprehensive that won't leave you coldELECTRICBLANKET15Down8 The igneous rock that makes up the Giant's CausewayBASALT6Down9 RootstockRHIZOME7Down11 A diurnal bird of prey of the genus ButeoBUZZARD7Down12 Small snacksNIBBLES7Down12 A rich French stew or soup of fish and vegetablesBOUILLABAISSE13Down13 Working title of film oddly omitted recurring themeLEITMOTIF9Down14 RidiculousRISIBLE7Down14 Position in church Liz mostly combined with shepherd after second husband leftELDERSHIP9Down15 LessMINUS5Down16 One organises nationals in real power going to heavenPLANNER7Down17 DenLAIR4Down17 The biggest-selling single of 1961, recorded by Del ShannonRUNAWAY7Down17 Small ruffRUCHE5Down18 Swedish tenor Björling accepting old incomplete birthright citizenshipJUSSOLI7Down19 Comic strip that appeared in the Daily Mirror from 1943 to 1997GARTH5Down19 Youth who drowned in the Hellespont while swimming to reach his beloved HeroLEANDER7Down20 A novel in which real people are depicted under fictitious namesROMANACLEF10Down21 Instrument's initial temperature increases which is welcomeHELLO5Down21 TV channel doesn't show very popular dance musicDISCO5Down22 Town in the West Bank near Jerusalem that was the birthplace of JesusBETHLEHEM9Down23 The North American bird Otus asioSCREECHOWL10Down24 See 49ADAMANT7Down26 German painter and printmaker regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern RenaissanceALBRECHTDURER13Down28 King of England known as Longshanks and the Hammer of the ScotsEDWARDI7Down31 Brand introduced by General Motors in 1926 as the companion marque to its Oakland divisionPONTIAC7Down33 New Zealand bird generally believed to have become extinct by 1500 ADMOA3Down34 Italian city in Emilia-Romagna noted for food such as ham and cheesePARMA5Down36 Fish also called bummaloBOMBAYDUCK10Down37 1993 film that was the directorial debut of Robert De NiroABRONXTALE10Down39 Nigerian-born Swedish musician and producer best known for his 1992 hit single It's My LifeDRALBAN7Down41 Mass migration such as that by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in NW Canada between 1896 and 1899GOLDRUSH8Down42 Brazilian footballer who became the world's most expensive player when he joined Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in 2017NEYMAR6Down44 Lenin's middle nameILYICH6Down45 Somerset city with a 12th-century cathedralWELLS5Down47 English musician born Stuart Goddard in 1954ADAMANT7Down49 In many parts of South Asia, a series of steps leading down to a riverGHAT4Down50 Steel-producing port in Indiana, on Lake MichiganGARY4Down52

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 27, 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.