The Independent Crossword March 14 2026 Answers

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Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 14 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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School subject71 AcrossReveal answer → Banded gemstone45 AcrossReveal answer → More than enough57 AcrossReveal answer → Controversial Lady Mone - risk it spirals out of control107 AcrossReveal answer → Order of business68 AcrossReveal answer → Barnsley lad visiting County Kerry48 AcrossReveal answer → Dracula's region129 AcrossReveal answer → Outline paper cut, trimmed at the edges610 AcrossReveal answer → English county510 AcrossReveal answer → Top lawyer Starmer touring area where 6 happened in December811 AcrossReveal answer → Song written by Bob Merrill that gave Rosemary Clooney a UK number one hit in 19551311 AcrossReveal answer → Trump's commerce secretary distributed cult handiwork1312 AcrossReveal answer → Offensively assertive512 AcrossReveal answer → A vector-based arcade video game released by Atari in 1979913 AcrossReveal answer → Instruction that a piece of music be played quickly, in a brisk lively manner715 AcrossReveal answer → The second compartment of the stomach of ruminants916 AcrossReveal answer → Hairstyle retro Dior fashion showcases416 AcrossReveal answer → Sale in which the price goes down1216 AcrossReveal answer → Dance whose styles include Casino and Cali-style517 AcrossReveal answer → 2002 film, based on a true story, featuring Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia1618 AcrossReveal answer → Second chapter provided introduction to interesting literary genre518 AcrossReveal answer → Narcotic619 AcrossReveal answer → The first single by The Cranberries, released in 1992619 AcrossReveal answer → Bars leaders of ICE, nauseating Nazi scumbags419 AcrossReveal answer → Unleash TV on the house?720 AcrossReveal answer → Rub out520 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for graphite821 AcrossReveal answer → Frail421 AcrossReveal answer → "Leg over" is "end away"621 AcrossReveal answer → Whaling spear722 AcrossReveal answer → Radio astronomy observatory on the Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico, officially renamed after Karl G Jansky in 20121423 AcrossReveal answer → Feel nostalgia for old, old city island state823 AcrossReveal answer → Symbol placed after a note or rest to increase its time value by half325 AcrossReveal answer → US political strategist, male, even more sick625 AcrossReveal answer → Chesspiece also called a castle426 AcrossReveal answer → Fed Dieter without hesitation?427 AcrossReveal answer → 1962 number one hit instrumental by The Tornados, produced by Joe Meek727 AcrossReveal answer → Buck that stops in London or Paris?1028 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Bulgaria528 AcrossReveal answer → Hanna-Barbera animated TV series created as a parody of The Phil Silvers Show631 AcrossReveal answer → Organisms that do not require free oxygen or air for respiration933 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Records, American record label founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, whose biggest selling recording artist was Whitney Houston634 AcrossReveal answer → 1961 British comedy horror film starring Sid James and Kenneth Connor, released in the US as No Place Like Homicide1238 AcrossReveal answer → A large aquatic bird of the genus Cygnus or Coscoroba441 AcrossReveal answer → River that flows into the Great Ouse to the south of Ely at Pope's Corner342 AcrossReveal answer → Channel 4 TV programme first broadcast in January 2005, narrated by comedian Dave Lamb1443 AcrossReveal answer → Former flag carrier and largest airline of Italy from 1947 to 2021844 AcrossReveal answer → German city and spa for which the French name is Aix-la-Chapelle646 AcrossReveal answer → 1964 musical based on stories by Sholem Aleichem1647 AcrossReveal answer → Shrub or small tree of the genus Syringa552 AcrossReveal answer → Geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula considered to include parts of six countries, including Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and parts of the former Yugoslavia953 AcrossReveal answer → The state capital of New Jersey754 AcrossReveal answer → In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world955 AcrossReveal answer → 1941 novel by James M Cain made into an Oscar-winning 1945 film of the same name starring Joan Crawford1356 AcrossReveal answer →

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Comfy racists busily assuming power? Some would say that's the MAGA way131 DownReveal answer → Word for an odd number in roulette61 DownReveal answer → Fireplace floor61 DownReveal answer → Starts to take seriously appalling Russian despot42 DownReveal answer → English actress whose films include The Girl on the Train, Mary Poppins Returns and Oppenheimer102 DownReveal answer → Reddish-brown pigment52 DownReveal answer → £51 million wasted by skinflint drinks manufacturer103 DownReveal answer → Protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories63 DownReveal answer → Supervise73 DownReveal answer → 1982 Top 10 hit for Kid Creole and the Coconuts114 DownReveal answer → Annual64 DownReveal answer → Marvellous pics I developed showing 7 and 11 perhaps?154 DownReveal answer → Louis ___, French aviator and aeronautical engineer who made the first flight across the English Channel75 DownReveal answer → Last Greek letter55 DownReveal answer → Religious teacher Knut's giving mum a cuddle45 DownReveal answer → Army detachment uncovered large towns' wicked deeds106 DownReveal answer → An acknowledgment that a scoring hit has been made in a fencing competition66 DownReveal answer → Jewish vernacular language76 DownReveal answer → Subject of the 2025 documentary film Man on the Run137 DownReveal answer → An epidermal pore that controls the passage of gases into and out of a plant58 DownReveal answer → British soap opera set in a fictional motel in the Midlands109 DownReveal answer → Material supplied by children's families?79 DownReveal answer → King of England killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest1210 DownReveal answer → Compress711 DownReveal answer → Piece of legislation from 1701 prompted by the failure of King William III, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne to produce any surviving children1512 DownReveal answer → Writing off forced migrations1013 DownReveal answer → Ambiguous713 DownReveal answer → Large motorboat614 DownReveal answer → Boris ___, Russian chess player who was world champion from 1969 to 1972714 DownReveal answer → Trainee615 DownReveal answer → Swift-sounding, crazy European that fits perfectly1015 DownReveal answer → See 11317 DownReveal answer → Timepiece517 DownReveal answer → Adult insect518 DownReveal answer → The marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings520 DownReveal answer → Cornish town and resort, home to several businesses owned by chef Rick Stein721 DownReveal answer → Vance said to be cycling? He's known for spinning records622 DownReveal answer → Former name for Myanmar522 DownReveal answer → The flowering plant Lysimachia nemorum of the family Primulaceae1524 DownReveal answer → Quarter regularly spent on a wee derivative424 DownReveal answer → Endless cash, laze around!426 DownReveal answer → A deficiency in the number of red blood cells or in their haemoglobin content729 DownReveal answer → English actor whose TV roles include Egg in This Life and Simon in Teachers1330 DownReveal answer → The science of drugs, including their characteristics and uses1232 DownReveal answer → Jochen ___, the only driver to posthumously win the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship535 DownReveal answer → Celtic tribe whom Boudica led in an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire536 DownReveal answer → The season of Epiphany1137 DownReveal answer → Irish singer, from a well-known musical family, who played Sharon Rabbitte in the 1991 film The Commitments1039 DownReveal answer → Order of insects which includes beetles and weevils1042 DownReveal answer → Town in West Sussex designated a new town in 1956743 DownReveal answer → Gout of the foot or big toe745 DownReveal answer → The capital of Tanzania648 DownReveal answer → A drug that causes vomiting649 DownReveal answer → A very small big-eared nocturnal fox inhabiting deserts of N Africa and Arabia650 DownReveal answer → North American Mennonite sect featured in the 1985 Peter Weir film Witness551 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 14, 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.