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The Independent Crossword March 2 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword March 2 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 108 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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Queen replacing theatre in time for processionSEQUENCE8Across1 ClairvoyantFEY3Across1 BenefitSAKE4Across3 Visa risk all banks withdrawing after credit crunchCRISIS6Across5 Cooking fatLARD4Across7 Like an eagleAQUILINE8Across8 UnavoidableINEVITABLE10Across9 British pianist made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1941MYRAHESS8Across10 Cage birds scratching tin signARIES5Across10 Quality that evokes pityPATHOS6Across11 Sax ___, pen name of English novelist Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, best remembered for his series of novels featuring Dr Fu ManchuROHMER6Across11 Showing intense passion, run in race - perhaps as sprint's overFERVENTLY9Across11 The ancient capital of Assyria, on the River TigrisNINEVEH7Across12 Channel starting with poem by artist inspired by Heathcliff's love - it used to give TV depthCATHODERAYTUBE14Across12 Noun formed from a verbGERUND6Across13 Understands broadcast - fiddle with electronic part of rocketNOSECONE8Across15 Song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen CampbellWICHITALINEMAN14Across15 Great work (Latin)MAGNUMOPUS10Across15 Town in Monmouthshire whose racecourse became the regular venue of the Welsh National in 1949CHEPSTOW8Across16 Penny discovered Tom Jones, a Welsh singer, cycling on board boatPEDALO6Across16 American TV sci-fi drama series, created by Tim Kring, that ran from 2006 to 2010HEROES6Across17 Former name for MadagascarMALAGASYREPUBLIC16Across18 RemorsefulCONTRITE8Across19 Gather together after action - demob happy at lastEMBODY6Across19 Leave outOMIT4Across20 With Vladimir, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for GodotESTRAGON8Across20 Melancholy men returning hatSOMBRERO8Across21 DimensionsSIZE4Across21 Brownish-greyDUN3Across22 Variety of quartz, used as a gemstone, also called smoky quartzCAIRNGORM9Across23 With guidance I naively try and sue American collegeYALEUNIVERSITY14Across23 In the Old Testament, son of Boaz and Ruth who was the father of JesseOBED4Across24 British actor whose films include Trading Places, A Private Function and A Room with a ViewDENHOLMELLIOTT14Across25 Village in the Dominican Republic considered the first formal European settlement in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493LAISABELA9Across26 Pound about right for on-line snack service?BUFFETCAR9Across27 Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the NativeVYE3Across28 Occasionally tabloid called out Times's excuseALIBI5Across28 The first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three releasesGERRYANDTHEPACEMAKERS21Across29 Cowardly scream "that hurt!"YELLOW6Across29 Go to cover firebombing - maybe originally ascribed to far right charactersPERSONAE8Across30 1977 album by David BowieLOW3Across33 Compact masses of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reservesSCLEROTIA9Across34 Punishment imposed by church authority as a condition of absolutionPENANCE7Across36 Stage name of American rapper, record producer and actor Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, who was born Jonathan DavisQTIP4Across37 Northern oceanic diving bird with black-and-white plumage and a long narrow billGUILLEMOT9Across39 Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, after whom a book of the Old Testament is namedNEHEMIAH8Across41 First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945ELEANORROOSEVELT16Across42 A member of a Central American Indian people who dominated the valley of Mexico from about 950 until overrun by the Aztecs in 1160 ADTOLTEC6Across44 The Battle of ___, fought in 1862, was the bloodiest single-day battle in American historyANTIETAM8Across46 Hollow cylindrical body part that connects the middle ear with the nasopharynxEUSTACHIANTUBE14Across48 See 25DENHOLMELLIOTT14Across49 A very fine resinous powder, especially of cuttlefish bone, formerly used to dry inkPOUNCE6Across50 A lord of Antioch, ordered to kill Pericles, in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of TyreTHALIARD8Across51

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Actor shifting scenery on an ...SEANCONNERY11Down1 1985 Swedish film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on a novel by Reidar JönssonMYLIFEASADOG12Down1 Criticism (Informal)FLAK4Down1 ... independent film pursuing question over America's demiseQUIETUS7Down2 A language of Afghanistan and NW PakistanPASHTO6Down2 Jewish vernacular languageYIDDISH7Down2 Key to take note as soon as daughter's settled snuglyENSCONCED9Down3 Spicy sauceSALSA5Down3 The moth Endromis versicolora, found in the Palaearctic regionKENTISHGLORY12Down3 American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen and Elliot RobertsASYLUM6Down4 Copyright a German article about very strong stimulantCAFFEINE8Down4 Fire-lighting materialKINDLING8Down4 Fatal poisonBANE4Down5 American golfer whose PGA Tour wins include the Kemper Insurance Open in 2001FRANKLICKLITER14Down5 1942 film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on a 1918 novel by Booth TarkingtonTHEMAGNIFICENTAMBERSONS23Down6 ExcursionOUTING6Down6 An angler might handle this river fishREEL4Down6 Alfred, Lord ___, Poet Laureate whose works include The Charge of the Light Brigade and Crossing the BarTENNYSON8Down7 Fruit ingredients of pavlova must astonish when put on the counterSATSUMA7Down7 Diurnal bird of prey with a long forked tail and long broad wingsKITE4Down8 Diffident Greek character voiced by 1 down?SHY3Down8 Looking up a time zoneAREA4Down9 Term, first coined in 1818, for any human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels, most commonly the bicycleVELOCIPEDE10Down9 Pasta tubesMACARONI8Down10 PeakSUMMIT6Down12 Portuguese footballer who was top goalscorer in the 1966 World CupEUSEBIO7Down13 Corrupt CEO's money essentially seized - revealing promise of more for lessECONOMYSIZE11Down14 AnswerRESPOND7Down14 Caterina ___, Toronto-born actress best known for playing Dr Amelia Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy and its spin-offs Private Practice and Station 19SCORSONE8Down14 SaltpetreNITRE5Down16 QuarryPREY4Down17 Shame Mars bars supply energy to begin withEMBARRASS9Down17 Firing ovenKILN4Down18 Concentrate - caught on boundaryCONVERGE8Down18 Port city in Mozambique that is the capital of the province of Cabo DelgadoPEMBA5Down19 Noxious airline fuel spilt next to Bristol's terminalBALEFUL7Down20 Town 6 miles west of Glasgow known as the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts"RENFREW7Down21 Copy insubordination - ignoring leaderEDITION7Down22 In ancient Roman religion, a deity or spirit presiding over a thing or placeNUMEN5Down22 Pleasant Mediterranean resortNICE4Down25 Leading man appearing in the roundHERO4Down26 1937 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Hugo Z HackenbushADAYATTHERACES14Down27 Youngster's prize books removedBOY3Down27 Country whose capital is HanoiVIETNAM7Down28 City in the Belgian province of Liège that is the capital of the Meuse-Rhine EuroregionEUPEN5Down30 American actress whose film roles include Jane Austen in Becoming Jane and Fantine in Les MisérablesANNEHATHAWAY12Down31 Swedish tennis player who won the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1988 and 1990STEFANEDBERG12Down32 Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is knownLITTLENELL10Down33 In music, a sign at the beginning or end of a section directed to be repeatedSEGNO5Down34 French international striker who played for Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, Chelsea and Crystal Palace in the Premier LeagueLOICREMY8Down35 Michel ___, French footballer who won the Ballon d'Or three years in a row, 1983-85PLATINI7Down38 An enclosed and covered stall with a door in which an animal can be confinedLOOSEBOX8Down40 The largest and most important island in French Polynesia, whose capital is PapeeteTAHITI6Down43 Country whose capital is RigaLATVIA6Down45 Dorothy's dog in The Wonderful Wizard of OzTOTO4Down47

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.