The Independent Crossword June 8 2024 Answers

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Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 8 2024. 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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Drunk used to be lout, many years ago61 AcrossReveal answer → Forced open61 AcrossReveal answer → Lion's cry44 AcrossReveal answer → C Kent's partner gets bad back in market town85 AcrossReveal answer → Ornamental shrub127 AcrossReveal answer → Simple announcement of "A lemon tree, my dear Watson"?89 AcrossReveal answer → Dutch cheese49 AcrossReveal answer → Nice810 AcrossReveal answer → Cat eats a rat's head and part of respiratory tract610 AcrossReveal answer → Hawaiian boxer who beat England's Terry Allen in 1950 become World flyweight champion1011 AcrossReveal answer → Greatly value what happened in a very quick tennis match?1011 AcrossReveal answer → Serviceable612 AcrossReveal answer → Theodore ___, American poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book The Waking712 AcrossReveal answer → Primordial matter found in mouldy lemons412 AcrossReveal answer → Reddish metal613 AcrossReveal answer → BBC sitcom written by Carla Lane that starred Felicity Kendal as Gemma Palmer413 AcrossReveal answer → Unpleasant shower drink after tai-chi oddly cancelled813 AcrossReveal answer → English dramatist, poet and translator whose plays include Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta1814 AcrossReveal answer → A domed or vaulted semicircular or polygonal recess, especially at the east end of a church415 AcrossReveal answer → Back and forth815 AcrossReveal answer → Flavours of fish, hint of smoke moving to the fore616 AcrossReveal answer → Greek comic dramatist whose only complete extant comedy is Dyskolos816 AcrossReveal answer → A song that Cinderella would like to reply to?617 AcrossReveal answer → Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder1317 AcrossReveal answer → Very small418 AcrossReveal answer → Mimic cricket matches, in part819 AcrossReveal answer → See 311219 AcrossReveal answer → Judith Rossner's last published novel820 AcrossReveal answer → Estate-owning aristocrats1220 AcrossReveal answer → Violent person421 AcrossReveal answer → Tree or shrub of the genus Salix621 AcrossReveal answer → Cloak is carbon copy421 AcrossReveal answer → Safety officer rewired fan incorrectly1022 AcrossReveal answer → Souped-up car622 AcrossReveal answer → A wealthy baronet in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals1523 AcrossReveal answer → Large quill pens key625 AcrossReveal answer → 1996 Tony Scott film starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes626 AcrossReveal answer → Introduces gangs during scrap826 AcrossReveal answer → Supply pear tree, which is what Partridge wanted on show827 AcrossReveal answer → 1959 film, based on the short story Rodolphe et le Revolver by Noel Calef, starring John Mills and his real life daughter Hayley in her first major film role827 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the white poplar528 AcrossReveal answer → Flashy and fishy?628 AcrossReveal answer → The largest reservoir in the United States in terms of water capacity829 AcrossReveal answer → Actor and director whose elder sister is Shirley MacLaine1231 AcrossReveal answer → Author whose novels include At Risk and Present Danger1533 AcrossReveal answer → Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine635 AcrossReveal answer → A small Old World rodent of the family Gliridae837 AcrossReveal answer → The part of the human body enclosed by the ribs639 AcrossReveal answer → English writer best known for his children's book Swallows and Amazons1342 AcrossReveal answer → Latin form of Hail Mary843 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of Deborah Anne Dyer, lead vocalist of Skunk Anansie444 AcrossReveal answer → One-act play by Tennessee Williams that opened off Broadway in January 1958, as part of a double bill with Something Unspoken1845 AcrossReveal answer → A multihulled sailing vessel found primarily in the Malay Archipelago and the South Pacific447 AcrossReveal answer → The large feline mammal Panthera pardus748 AcrossReveal answer → Anabolic steroid for which Petr Korda, Shoaib Akhtar and Linford Christie all tested positive1049 AcrossReveal answer →

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Very fine soft wool from long-haired Asian goats81 DownReveal answer → Eternity101 DownReveal answer → American lecturer regularly taking ecstasy by herself52 DownReveal answer → Italian language opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart whose libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte122 DownReveal answer → Set apart72 DownReveal answer → Swear about losing a hairpiece53 DownReveal answer → Annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection83 DownReveal answer → River island43 DownReveal answer → Old map I revised for academic qualification74 DownReveal answer → Heating device84 DownReveal answer → 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey adapted into a film starring Burt Lancaster74 DownReveal answer → English comedian, actor and writer whose comedy partner is David Mitchell105 DownReveal answer → Hawaiian greeting55 DownReveal answer → Left behind end of extension for sun lamp75 DownReveal answer → American singer, songwriter and musician who joined The Byrds in 1968 and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow Byrd Chris Hillman in 1969116 DownReveal answer → Prison room46 DownReveal answer → Observant of passages in English? On the contrary76 DownReveal answer → 1986 book, derived from material from the unpublished diaries of Anaïs Nin, on which a 1990 film was based127 DownReveal answer → I err badly, upsetting worm-catcher97 DownReveal answer → People hanging round Italy abandoning women's underwear with arse exposed98 DownReveal answer → Substance also known as bleaching powder158 DownReveal answer → Naively idealistic108 DownReveal answer → The plant Chrysanthemum parthenium, formerly used medicinally89 DownReveal answer → Song by Sir Noël Coward that originated in his 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet1410 DownReveal answer → Working animal811 DownReveal answer → American basketball player drafted by the Orlando Magic with the first overall pick in the 1992 NBA Draft1413 DownReveal answer → Artist714 DownReveal answer → Charlie helps after banks rejected father saving up for fruit tree914 DownReveal answer → Life of luxury portrayed in absurd old Conservative show about lady's rise to power915 DownReveal answer → Flooded516 DownReveal answer → Impolite417 DownReveal answer → Change course, wanting to take Latin718 DownReveal answer → 2003 Christmas film starring Will Ferrell318 DownReveal answer → Allegorical story of Scotsman dividing pasty719 DownReveal answer → Prohibition419 DownReveal answer → Author arguing about ladies, primarily720 DownReveal answer → 1975 Top Ten hit for Frankie Valli1522 DownReveal answer → I acknowledge that wordy compiler must shorten 20D's opening523 DownReveal answer → 1930 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho Marx plays explorer Captain Spaulding1423 DownReveal answer → Team up to restrict temperature changes524 DownReveal answer → Viktor ___, prime minister of Hungary from 2010524 DownReveal answer → See 131425 DownReveal answer → Trilogy of action films starring Liam Neeson, beginning in 2008526 DownReveal answer → Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959-60 under Hugh Gaitskell1228 DownReveal answer → Birmingham-based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons founded in 18631230 DownReveal answer → Fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope932 DownReveal answer → Isabella ___, actress daughter of Ingrid Bergman whose films include Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her1034 DownReveal answer → The capital of Belgium836 DownReveal answer → State of Nigeria whose capital is Ibadan338 DownReveal answer → The government department in charge of finance839 DownReveal answer → Arab philosopher and physician whose medical work Qanun greatly influenced medieval medicine840 DownReveal answer → See 61141 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan446 DownReveal answer →

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