The Independent Crossword March 16 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 16 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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Wet dirt31 AcrossReveal answer → Nearest neighbours exemplify tact, initially holding vote41 AcrossReveal answer → Hold in respect63 AcrossReveal answer → Police deployed around pound arresting rogue for minor sin104 AcrossReveal answer → Type of number77 AcrossReveal answer → Cadaver48 AcrossReveal answer → One month besieging Brown Sector69 AcrossReveal answer → Bit on the side in Paris very inspired by escape810 AcrossReveal answer → NCO1310 AcrossReveal answer → The first black footballer to represent England in a full international match1110 AcrossReveal answer → American guitarist who died in London in 19701111 AcrossReveal answer → Docked in unusually still sea811 AcrossReveal answer → Fix securely612 AcrossReveal answer → Hoarder's minute silver dish613 AcrossReveal answer → Oscar-winning actress whose children include Kate Hudson1014 AcrossReveal answer → Sharing cost of portion alfresco?1014 AcrossReveal answer → Felt or velvet hat614 AcrossReveal answer → Guitarist whose groups included Cream and Blind Faith1115 AcrossReveal answer → Sport gun Republican avoids416 AcrossReveal answer → Bedroom furniture item1316 AcrossReveal answer → The Italian word for coffee516 AcrossReveal answer → Contraction of insanity intermittently observed417 AcrossReveal answer → Monarch418 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Ray Charles, released as a single in 1959918 AcrossReveal answer → Toy hippos loosely stuffed with twisted rag -- that's about right1019 AcrossReveal answer → David ___, English bowls champion who won the Commonwealth Games singles bowls championship on four occasions620 AcrossReveal answer → Sloping roof beams720 AcrossReveal answer → Hit621 AcrossReveal answer → Island and county off the northwest coast of Wales known as Ynys Môn in Welsh821 AcrossReveal answer → Layman apolitically embraces a vision to die for?622 AcrossReveal answer → Chimney (Scottish)322 AcrossReveal answer → The guitarist in Led Zeppelin922 AcrossReveal answer → Put off after page 1823 AcrossReveal answer → River giving its name to what is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War424 AcrossReveal answer → 7 band member tipped 3 to cavort with 16825 AcrossReveal answer → An antimicrobial substance applied to living tissue to reduce the possibility of infection1026 AcrossReveal answer → Braggart turns out second hat626 AcrossReveal answer → Distention following injury causes tissue inflammation1027 AcrossReveal answer → Equipment located by English and Scottish corporation428 AcrossReveal answer → The ___, 1957 autobiography by Eliot Ness1229 AcrossReveal answer → Island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea whose capital is Castries1031 AcrossReveal answer → Nontechnical name for the clavicle1032 AcrossReveal answer → Italian former footballer, awarded the Ballon d'Or in 1969, who became an MEP1235 AcrossReveal answer → Aria composed by George Gershwin for the opera Porgy and Bess, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward1037 AcrossReveal answer → A small usually ornamented case for holding needles, cosmetics, or other small articles439 AcrossReveal answer → The southern school of Buddhism, literally "the teaching of the elders"940 AcrossReveal answer → Guitarist who had a 1967 hit with Hi Ho Silver Lining842 AcrossReveal answer → A wall or jetty built out from a riverbank or seashore to control erosion644 AcrossReveal answer → James ___, British prime minister from 1976 to 1979946 AcrossReveal answer → Rubén ___, Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo547 AcrossReveal answer → English rugby league footballer named Man of Steel for the 2020 season1148 AcrossReveal answer → English blues guitarist who founded Fleetwood Mac1050 AcrossReveal answer → BBC drama series in which Nigel Le Vaillant originally played the central role1152 AcrossReveal answer → 1990 sci-fi film starring Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston and Peter Boyle1153 AcrossReveal answer →

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A clergyman attached to a cathedral who is not a member of the chapter101 DownReveal answer → Cricket fielding position51 DownReveal answer → Isolated group subject turns son into Conservative72 DownReveal answer → 1976 live album by Bob Dylan82 DownReveal answer → Risky92 DownReveal answer → Run into train track53 DownReveal answer → “___ is fatal only to the mediocre” (Albert Camus)83 DownReveal answer → Cling63 DownReveal answer → Withdrawn hint is mine34 DownReveal answer → Thoroughfare in New York City famous for its theatres84 DownReveal answer → Pen part34 DownReveal answer → Experience75 DownReveal answer → Stirs just over half of food round?75 DownReveal answer → Bass guitarist of The Who who died in 2002135 DownReveal answer → Heedlessly rash96 DownReveal answer → Suppositions Maoists spun freely116 DownReveal answer → Vaslav ___, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent who died in 195086 DownReveal answer → See 25117 DownReveal answer → Disorderly old tax collectors going as predicted?97 DownReveal answer → The brightest star in the constellation Lyra48 DownReveal answer → Doris, say, arguably more "out" before end of evening78 DownReveal answer → Uncomfortable99 DownReveal answer → Laurent ___, French cyclist who won the Tour de France twice, in 1983 and 198469 DownReveal answer → Abundant911 DownReveal answer → Unbounded sport expertise starts to enrich new county town1112 DownReveal answer → In ancient Greece, a passionate choral hymn in honour of Dionysus912 DownReveal answer → A toxic silvery-white metallic element of the lanthanide series, occurring principally in monazite913 DownReveal answer → Live in harmony713 DownReveal answer → Old place name red-top rag reprinted915 DownReveal answer → Waterproof jacket615 DownReveal answer → See 431517 DownReveal answer → Fish517 DownReveal answer → Law takes time to block representation718 DownReveal answer → A word imputing a characteristic to a noun or pronoun919 DownReveal answer → Wildebeest319 DownReveal answer → American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California920 DownReveal answer → Mike, flexible, fully promotes one prosthetic filler720 DownReveal answer → Sharp play on words chap supports721 DownReveal answer → One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, called "the glory of Israel" by Micah723 DownReveal answer → Exercise strategy that goes up to 11?524 DownReveal answer → Irish novelist whose works include Circle of Friends and Light a Penny Candle1125 DownReveal answer → Brother or sister pops up twice326 DownReveal answer → See 51327 DownReveal answer → A sulphur-containing amino acid important in the metabolism of fats728 DownReveal answer → The head of government of Ireland930 DownReveal answer → See 421331 DownReveal answer → The second album by U2, released in 1981733 DownReveal answer → Sam ___, American actor after whom a theatre next to the Globe Theatre in London is named934 DownReveal answer → Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills936 DownReveal answer → The NW division of Oceania, which includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Kiribati island groups, and Nauru Island1038 DownReveal answer → BBC TV sitcom set in a small-town café in Nazi-occupied France during WWII841 DownReveal answer → Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who wrote Gulliver's Travels1342 DownReveal answer → Italian film director whose works include the 1960 film La Dolce Vita1543 DownReveal answer → The official currency unit of Indonesia645 DownReveal answer → A young and handsome lieutenant under Othello's command in Shakespeare's play Othello646 DownReveal answer → French brandy distilled from the remains of grapes pressed for wine-making449 DownReveal answer → The bow of a vessel450 DownReveal answer → See 2851 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 16, 2024. 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.