The Independent Crossword June 6 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 6 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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Leader in Sun, Farage: "Our NHS needs Reform". Such a divisive character!131 AcrossReveal answer → Action41 AcrossReveal answer → Dried grass33 AcrossReveal answer → Convulsive shiver78 AcrossReveal answer → Farewell toast79 AcrossReveal answer → Weighed down59 AcrossReveal answer → Starts to dream up musical title710 AcrossReveal answer → Additional1210 AcrossReveal answer → US state whose capital is Phoenix711 AcrossReveal answer → Small flock of partridge511 AcrossReveal answer → Crazy upper-class twit discharged in US city511 AcrossReveal answer → 10 had, in essence, acquired a reputation for dishonesty912 AcrossReveal answer → Fight (Informal)513 AcrossReveal answer → Gloria's arranged housing for eastern women here813 AcrossReveal answer → Conservation organisation founded in 18951313 AcrossReveal answer → The doctrine that the morally correct course of action consists in the greatest good for the greatest number1414 AcrossReveal answer → At once1215 AcrossReveal answer → Renovate equipment used to broadcast sermon?615 AcrossReveal answer → The bushy leguminous plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its edible seeds815 AcrossReveal answer → The Pope's tiara1116 AcrossReveal answer → Most vulgar ways in France and the UK to frame Germany?618 AcrossReveal answer → Member of the fictional Addams Family played by Jackie Coogan in the original TV series and by Christopher Lloyd in the films1118 AcrossReveal answer → Divide by two519 AcrossReveal answer → Confront newspaper defending large international operation819 AcrossReveal answer → The small leguminous plant Lens culinaris, cultivated for its edible seeds620 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish drink720 AcrossReveal answer → Pallid321 AcrossReveal answer → 1984 science fantasy film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen721 AcrossReveal answer → Bury the greatest article along with the rest922 AcrossReveal answer → Any of the early French settlers in Nova Scotia, many of whom were deported to Louisiana in the 18th century722 AcrossReveal answer → Fluid-filled sac422 AcrossReveal answer → Complete write off524 AcrossReveal answer → Tasteless, fashionable drink Ingrid drained725 AcrossReveal answer → Old court letter exposed Group of Eight726 AcrossReveal answer → Fictional fox whose TV stooges included Rodney Bewes, Derek Fowlds and Roy North1026 AcrossReveal answer → Starmer bans me getting involved; shame1327 AcrossReveal answer → English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works include Songs of Innocence and of Experience1229 AcrossReveal answer → In rugby, a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet431 AcrossReveal answer → Roman Catholic feast celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday1332 AcrossReveal answer → An omen of death in the form of a black dog in the J K Rowling novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban434 AcrossReveal answer → English singer-songwriter who was a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator1235 AcrossReveal answer → Non-scientific subjects of study, such as literature and history1036 AcrossReveal answer → A type of satirical, usually topical, West Indian ballad737 AcrossReveal answer → The only horse ever to complete the Champion Hurdle/Gold Cup double at Cheltenham739 AcrossReveal answer → One of a series of gliding steps in ballet in which the same foot always leads640 AcrossReveal answer → Large blood vessel of the neck that returns blood to the heart from the head and face1143 AcrossReveal answer → A 1972 Number 1 single for T Rex1146 AcrossReveal answer → Town in the Epping Forest district of Essex in which the TV series Birds of a Feather is set848 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for "12 Down" borealis1449 AcrossReveal answer → A party game in which someone tries to catch and identify the other players without being able to see them1351 AcrossReveal answer → 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film starring Dirk Bogarde, based on a novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov752 AcrossReveal answer →

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Time for another bit to eat?71 DownReveal answer → English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The Listeners141 DownReveal answer → Stop61 DownReveal answer → Used keys again and went back in92 DownReveal answer → An imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels82 DownReveal answer → Kit out52 DownReveal answer → A bit posh or synthetically, affectedly refined in speech53 DownReveal answer → The second-largest city in Canada83 DownReveal answer → Water main outlet73 DownReveal answer → Tug44 DownReveal answer → Say Oscar first in command, being self-obsessed84 DownReveal answer → Vienna-born psychiatrist considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology alongside Melanie Klein94 DownReveal answer → Category-A listed building in Ayrshire that was the birthplace of John Dalrymple105 DownReveal answer → Debased115 DownReveal answer → Accursed rabid hound turns up65 DownReveal answer → American writer whose novels include The Naked and the Dead126 DownReveal answer → Edge of a hat46 DownReveal answer → Desecration of New Age relics96 DownReveal answer → Furtive117 DownReveal answer → The derived SI unit of pressure67 DownReveal answer → Relative having base in Riviera location57 DownReveal answer → Consumes American drink round back of roadhouse68 DownReveal answer → Richard ___, German designer who helped to create the teddy bear68 DownReveal answer → A jelly-like sweet flavoured with flower essences, usually cut into cubes and covered in icing sugar149 DownReveal answer → Volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean that was Napoleon Bonaparte's second and final place of exile810 DownReveal answer → Bunting712 DownReveal answer → The Roman goddess of the dawn612 DownReveal answer → Top grub (as cooked here?)914 DownReveal answer → Despot614 DownReveal answer → Deep cut416 DownReveal answer → Philosopher Ayer cleaned out horrid toilets916 DownReveal answer → Verbose517 DownReveal answer → Lover boy turned on as sparkling wine goes round817 DownReveal answer → See 251217 DownReveal answer → Stop bucketin' down, by the sound of it618 DownReveal answer → Masticate418 DownReveal answer → Type of administration of a British overseas territory, such as Hong Kong before the 1997 handover to the Peoples' Republic of China1119 DownReveal answer → Everybody featured in trial least likely to be believable720 DownReveal answer → Ogilvie regularly disembarked the German aircraft621 DownReveal answer → A plant of the pink family, of the genera Silene and Lychnis, said to have been used for victors' garlands in ancient times723 DownReveal answer → Experience Rubens' final piece hung in gallery523 DownReveal answer → A rich velouté sauce made with a base of veal or chicken stock and cream or egg yolks724 DownReveal answer → St Paul's correspondent periodically rejected this truism524 DownReveal answer → 1960s animated Hanna-Barbera TV series whose title character was voiced by Jean Vander Pyl1225 DownReveal answer → Well-known song by Sir Noël Coward from his 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet1427 DownReveal answer → In ancient Greece and Rome, a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus728 DownReveal answer → City in southwest Germany that became the largest US garrison outside the United States in the late 1940s1430 DownReveal answer → System of Christian belief that rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ1233 DownReveal answer → See 51036 DownReveal answer → Chief sheikhdom and capital of the UAE838 DownReveal answer → Stephen Bishop's first album, featuring the hit singles On and On and Save It for a Rainy Day840 DownReveal answer → A dry brown brandy distilled in the French district of Gers841 DownReveal answer → A group or series of four642 DownReveal answer → The Icarus ___, 1988 thriller by Robert Ludlum that is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript644 DownReveal answer → Roman god of fire and metalworking whose Greek counterpart is Hephaestus645 DownReveal answer → See 4947 DownReveal answer → Leon A ___, Philadelphia soul songwriting and record production partner of Kenneth Gamble450 DownReveal answer →

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