The Independent Crossword June 6 2026 Answers

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Below are all the The Independent Crossword June 6 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 108 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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Leader in Sun, Farage: "Our NHS needs Reform". Such a divisive character!SARAHFERGUSON13Across1 ActionDEED4Across1 Dried grassHAY3Across3 Convulsive shiverSHUDDER7Across8 Farewell toastCHEERIO7Across9 Weighed downLADEN5Across9 Starts to dream up musical titleDUCHESS7Across10 AdditionalSUPPLEMENTAL12Across10 US state whose capital is PhoenixARIZONA7Across11 Small flock of partridgeCOVEY5Across11 Crazy upper-class twit discharged in US cityNUTTY5Across11 10 had, in essence, acquired a reputation for dishonestySHADINESS9Across12 Fight (Informal)SETTO5Across13 Gloria's arranged housing for eastern women hereSERAGLIO8Across13 Conservation organisation founded in 1895NATIONALTRUST13Across13 The doctrine that the morally correct course of action consists in the greatest good for the greatest numberUTILITARIANISM14Across14 At onceSTRAIGHTAWAY12Across15 Renovate equipment used to broadcast sermon?REVAMP6Across15 The bushy leguminous plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its edible seedsCHICKPEA8Across15 The Pope's tiaraTRIPLECROWN11Across16 Most vulgar ways in France and the UK to frame Germany?RUDEST6Across18 Member of the fictional Addams Family played by Jackie Coogan in the original TV series and by Christopher Lloyd in the filmsUNCLEFESTER11Across18 Divide by twoHALVE5Across19 Confront newspaper defending large international operationFACELIFT8Across19 The small leguminous plant Lens culinaris, cultivated for its edible seedsLENTIL6Across20 Spanish drinkSANGRIA7Across20 PallidWAN3Across21 1984 science fantasy film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen AllenSTARMAN7Across21 Bury the greatest article along with the restINTERALIA9Across22 Any of the early French settlers in Nova Scotia, many of whom were deported to Louisiana in the 18th centuryACADIAN7Across22 Fluid-filled sacCYST4Across22 Complete write offTOTAL5Across24 Tasteless, fashionable drink Ingrid drainedINSIPID7Across25 Old court letter exposed Group of EightOCTETTE7Across26 Fictional fox whose TV stooges included Rodney Bewes, Derek Fowlds and Roy NorthBASILBRUSH10Across26 Starmer bans me getting involved; shameEMBARRASSMENT13Across27 English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works include Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceWILLIAMBLAKE12Across29 In rugby, a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feetMAUL4Across31 Roman Catholic feast celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity SundayCORPUSCHRISTI13Across32 An omen of death in the form of a black dog in the J K Rowling novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanGRIM4Across34 English singer-songwriter who was a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf GeneratorPETERHAMMILL12Across35 Non-scientific subjects of study, such as literature and historyHUMANITIES10Across36 A type of satirical, usually topical, West Indian balladCALYPSO7Across37 The only horse ever to complete the Champion Hurdle/Gold Cup double at CheltenhamDAWNRUN7Across39 One of a series of gliding steps in ballet in which the same foot always leadsCHASSE6Across40 Large blood vessel of the neck that returns blood to the heart from the head and faceJUGULARVEIN11Across43 A 1972 Number 1 single for T RexTELEGRAMSAM11Across46 Town in the Epping Forest district of Essex in which the TV series Birds of a Feather is setCHIGWELL8Across48 Another name for "12 Down" borealisNORTHERNLIGHTS14Across49 A party game in which someone tries to catch and identify the other players without being able to see themBLINDMANSBUFF13Across51 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film starring Dirk Bogarde, based on a novel of the same name by Vladimir NabokovDESPAIR7Across52

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Time for another bit to eat?SECONDS7Down1 English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The ListenersWALTERDELAMARE14Down1 StopDESIST6Down1 Used keys again and went back inREENTERED9Down2 An imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsLILLIPUT8Down2 Kit outEQUIP5Down2 A bit posh or synthetically, affectedly refined in speechHORSY5Down3 The second-largest city in CanadaMONTREAL8Down3 Water main outletHYDRANT7Down3 TugYANK4Down4 Say Oscar first in command, being self-obsessedEGOISTIC8Down4 Vienna-born psychiatrist considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology alongside Melanie KleinANNAFREUD9Down4 Category-A listed building in Ayrshire that was the birthplace of John DalrympleSTAIRHOUSE10Down5 DebasedADULTERATED11Down5 Accursed rabid hound turns upGODDAM6Down5 American writer whose novels include The Naked and the DeadNORMANMAILER12Down6 Edge of a hatBRIM4Down6 Desecration of New Age relicsSACRILEGE9Down6 FurtiveCLANDESTINE11Down7 The derived SI unit of pressurePASCAL6Down7 Relative having base in Riviera locationNIECE5Down7 Consumes American drink round back of roadhouseUSESUP6Down8 Richard ___, German designer who helped to create the teddy bearSTEIFF6Down8 A jelly-like sweet flavoured with flower essences, usually cut into cubes and covered in icing sugarTURKISHDELIGHT14Down9 Volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean that was Napoleon Bonaparte's second and final place of exileSTHELENA8Down10 BuntingORTOLAN7Down12 The Roman goddess of the dawnAURORA6Down12 Top grub (as cooked here?)GASTROPUB9Down14 DespotTYRANT6Down14 Deep cutGASH4Down16 Philosopher Ayer cleaned out horrid toiletsARISTOTLE9Down16 VerboseWORDY5Down17 Lover boy turned on as sparkling wine goes roundCASANOVA8Down17 See 25WINSOMEWITCH12Down17 Stop bucketin' down, by the sound of itREININ6Down18 MasticateCHEW4Down18 Type of administration of a British overseas territory, such as Hong Kong before the 1997 handover to the Peoples' Republic of ChinaCROWNCOLONY11Down19 Everybody featured in trial least likely to be believableTALLEST7Down20 Ogilvie regularly disembarked the German aircraftGLIDER6Down21 A plant of the pink family, of the genera Silene and Lychnis, said to have been used for victors' garlands in ancient timesCAMPION7Down23 Experience Rubens' final piece hung in galleryTASTE5Down23 A rich velouté sauce made with a base of veal or chicken stock and cream or egg yolksSUPREME7Down24 St Paul's correspondent periodically rejected this truismTITUS5Down24 1960s animated Hanna-Barbera TV series whose title character was voiced by Jean Vander PylWINSOMEWITCH12Down25 Well-known song by Sir Noël Coward from his 1929 operetta Bitter SweetILLSEEYOUAGAIN14Down27 In ancient Greece and Rome, a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with DionysusBACCHUS7Down28 City in southwest Germany that became the largest US garrison outside the United States in the late 1940sKAISERSLAUTERN14Down30 System of Christian belief that rejects the Trinity and the divinity of ChristUNITARIANISM12Down33 See 5STAIRHOUSE10Down36 Chief sheikhdom and capital of the UAEABUDHABI8Down38 Stephen Bishop's first album, featuring the hit singles On and On and Save It for a Rainy DayCARELESS8Down40 A dry brown brandy distilled in the French district of GersARMAGNAC8Down41 A group or series of fourTETRAD6Down42 The Icarus ___, 1988 thriller by Robert Ludlum that is the sequel to The Chancellor ManuscriptAGENDA6Down44 Roman god of fire and metalworking whose Greek counterpart is HephaestusVULCAN6Down45 See 4ANNAFREUD9Down47 Leon A ___, Philadelphia soul songwriting and record production partner of Kenneth GambleHUFF4Down50

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 6, 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.