The Independent Crossword March 2 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 2 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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Queen replacing theatre in time for procession81 AcrossReveal answer → Clairvoyant31 AcrossReveal answer → Benefit43 AcrossReveal answer → Visa risk all banks withdrawing after credit crunch65 AcrossReveal answer → Cooking fat47 AcrossReveal answer → Like an eagle88 AcrossReveal answer → Unavoidable109 AcrossReveal answer → British pianist made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1941810 AcrossReveal answer → Cage birds scratching tin sign510 AcrossReveal answer → Quality that evokes pity611 AcrossReveal answer → Sax ___, pen name of English novelist Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, best remembered for his series of novels featuring Dr Fu Manchu611 AcrossReveal answer → Showing intense passion, run in race - perhaps as sprint's over911 AcrossReveal answer → The ancient capital of Assyria, on the River Tigris712 AcrossReveal answer → Channel starting with poem by artist inspired by Heathcliff's love - it used to give TV depth1412 AcrossReveal answer → Noun formed from a verb613 AcrossReveal answer → Understands broadcast - fiddle with electronic part of rocket815 AcrossReveal answer → Song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen Campbell1415 AcrossReveal answer → Great work (Latin)1015 AcrossReveal answer → Town in Monmouthshire whose racecourse became the regular venue of the Welsh National in 1949816 AcrossReveal answer → Penny discovered Tom Jones, a Welsh singer, cycling on board boat616 AcrossReveal answer → American TV sci-fi drama series, created by Tim Kring, that ran from 2006 to 2010617 AcrossReveal answer → Former name for Madagascar1618 AcrossReveal answer → Remorseful819 AcrossReveal answer → Gather together after action - demob happy at last619 AcrossReveal answer → Leave out420 AcrossReveal answer → With Vladimir, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot820 AcrossReveal answer → Melancholy men returning hat821 AcrossReveal answer → Dimensions421 AcrossReveal answer → Brownish-grey322 AcrossReveal answer → Variety of quartz, used as a gemstone, also called smoky quartz923 AcrossReveal answer → With guidance I naively try and sue American college1423 AcrossReveal answer → In the Old Testament, son of Boaz and Ruth who was the father of Jesse424 AcrossReveal answer → British actor whose films include Trading Places, A Private Function and A Room with a View1425 AcrossReveal answer → Village in the Dominican Republic considered the first formal European settlement in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493926 AcrossReveal answer → Pound about right for on-line snack service?927 AcrossReveal answer → Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native328 AcrossReveal answer → Occasionally tabloid called out Times's excuse528 AcrossReveal answer → The first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three releases2129 AcrossReveal answer → Cowardly scream "that hurt!"629 AcrossReveal answer → Go to cover firebombing - maybe originally ascribed to far right characters830 AcrossReveal answer → 1977 album by David Bowie333 AcrossReveal answer → Compact masses of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves934 AcrossReveal answer → Punishment imposed by church authority as a condition of absolution736 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of American rapper, record producer and actor Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, who was born Jonathan Davis437 AcrossReveal answer → Northern oceanic diving bird with black-and-white plumage and a long narrow bill939 AcrossReveal answer → Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, after whom a book of the Old Testament is named841 AcrossReveal answer → First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 19451642 AcrossReveal answer → A member of a Central American Indian people who dominated the valley of Mexico from about 950 until overrun by the Aztecs in 1160 AD644 AcrossReveal answer → The Battle of ___, fought in 1862, was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history846 AcrossReveal answer → Hollow cylindrical body part that connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx1448 AcrossReveal answer → See 251449 AcrossReveal answer → A very fine resinous powder, especially of cuttlefish bone, formerly used to dry ink650 AcrossReveal answer → A lord of Antioch, ordered to kill Pericles, in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre851 AcrossReveal answer →

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Actor shifting scenery on an ...111 DownReveal answer → 1985 Swedish film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on a novel by Reidar Jönsson121 DownReveal answer → Criticism (Informal)41 DownReveal answer → ... independent film pursuing question over America's demise72 DownReveal answer → A language of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan62 DownReveal answer → Jewish vernacular language72 DownReveal answer → Key to take note as soon as daughter's settled snugly93 DownReveal answer → Spicy sauce53 DownReveal answer → The moth Endromis versicolora, found in the Palaearctic region123 DownReveal answer → American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen and Elliot Roberts64 DownReveal answer → Copyright a German article about very strong stimulant84 DownReveal answer → Fire-lighting material84 DownReveal answer → Fatal poison45 DownReveal answer → American golfer whose PGA Tour wins include the Kemper Insurance Open in 2001145 DownReveal answer → 1942 film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington236 DownReveal answer → Excursion66 DownReveal answer → An angler might handle this river fish46 DownReveal answer → Alfred, Lord ___, Poet Laureate whose works include The Charge of the Light Brigade and Crossing the Bar87 DownReveal answer → Fruit ingredients of pavlova must astonish when put on the counter77 DownReveal answer → Diurnal bird of prey with a long forked tail and long broad wings48 DownReveal answer → Diffident Greek character voiced by 1 down?38 DownReveal answer → Looking up a time zone49 DownReveal answer → Term, first coined in 1818, for any human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels, most commonly the bicycle109 DownReveal answer → Pasta tubes810 DownReveal answer → Peak612 DownReveal answer → Portuguese footballer who was top goalscorer in the 1966 World Cup713 DownReveal answer → Corrupt CEO's money essentially seized - revealing promise of more for less1114 DownReveal answer → Answer714 DownReveal answer → Caterina ___, Toronto-born actress best known for playing Dr Amelia Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy and its spin-offs Private Practice and Station 19814 DownReveal answer → Saltpetre516 DownReveal answer → Quarry417 DownReveal answer → Shame Mars bars supply energy to begin with917 DownReveal answer → Firing oven418 DownReveal answer → Concentrate - caught on boundary818 DownReveal answer → Port city in Mozambique that is the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado519 DownReveal answer → Noxious airline fuel spilt next to Bristol's terminal720 DownReveal answer → Town 6 miles west of Glasgow known as the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts"721 DownReveal answer → Copy insubordination - ignoring leader722 DownReveal answer → In ancient Roman religion, a deity or spirit presiding over a thing or place522 DownReveal answer → Pleasant Mediterranean resort425 DownReveal answer → Leading man appearing in the round426 DownReveal answer → 1937 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Hugo Z Hackenbush1427 DownReveal answer → Youngster's prize books removed327 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Hanoi728 DownReveal answer → City in the Belgian province of Liège that is the capital of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion530 DownReveal answer → American actress whose film roles include Jane Austen in Becoming Jane and Fantine in Les Misérables1231 DownReveal answer → Swedish tennis player who won the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1988 and 19901232 DownReveal answer → Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known1033 DownReveal answer → In music, a sign at the beginning or end of a section directed to be repeated534 DownReveal answer → French international striker who played for Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, Chelsea and Crystal Palace in the Premier League835 DownReveal answer → Michel ___, French footballer who won the Ballon d'Or three years in a row, 1983-85738 DownReveal answer → An enclosed and covered stall with a door in which an animal can be confined840 DownReveal answer → The largest and most important island in French Polynesia, whose capital is Papeete643 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Riga645 DownReveal answer → Dorothy's dog in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz447 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 2, 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.