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The Independent Crossword March 20 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 20 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Whip Australian into court31 AcrossReveal answer → Tall41 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of heredity43 AcrossReveal answer → Old man to understand about rupees and francs113 AcrossReveal answer → Let down127 AcrossReveal answer → Skilled59 AcrossReveal answer → A choice of ways forward when bringing in one crop59 AcrossReveal answer → Ill-advised mug died horribly, touring island910 AcrossReveal answer → Have nothing to do with love411 AcrossReveal answer → Anxious711 AcrossReveal answer → Burlesque act - parties set to be enlivened1012 AcrossReveal answer → Sailors' song612 AcrossReveal answer → Against fastening on edge, like some earrings?614 AcrossReveal answer → Deer's branched horn614 AcrossReveal answer → Wind-player popular when in drink815 AcrossReveal answer → Outstanding payments715 AcrossReveal answer → Good quantity of wine in pub for wind-player817 AcrossReveal answer → Criminal517 AcrossReveal answer → Savoury meat paste1219 AcrossReveal answer → Drinks almost all of pitcher and gets cold619 AcrossReveal answer → Surrender421 AcrossReveal answer → Gaming stake422 AcrossReveal answer → Gloomy cellar - push for redecoration1022 AcrossReveal answer → University series providing enjoyment of right424 AcrossReveal answer → Cut off very large signal? Is blocking that926 AcrossReveal answer → Most of border invaded by American intelligence527 AcrossReveal answer → Carol’s husband among our men treated in hospice1128 AcrossReveal answer → Detectives heading off? Agreed329 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Rapidity51 DownReveal answer → Funny to arrive and risk missing end of game71 DownReveal answer → Narrow opening32 DownReveal answer → Tense description of midnight activity of bird-watchers92 DownReveal answer → Biscuit93 DownReveal answer → Wind, Eastern, expressing a sort of air43 DownReveal answer → Takes responsibility for posters put around Cambridge University64 DownReveal answer → Necessary74 DownReveal answer → Dada-inspired movement of French - this is just loony at the outset75 DownReveal answer → To a tiresome extent95 DownReveal answer → Sport46 DownReveal answer → Attracted by wife-swapping? Naughtily aroused - and ultimately participating!106 DownReveal answer → Monster - English writer almost entirely upset57 DownReveal answer → Poorly earthed – rather high temperature78 DownReveal answer → Made clear98 DownReveal answer → Private chat910 DownReveal answer → Flight company713 DownReveal answer → Italian painter floundering amid oil and gin1013 DownReveal answer → Attachment to airship – concern with end dropping off315 DownReveal answer → Ornamental band416 DownReveal answer → Obligatory rise in desire, receiving moving caress916 DownReveal answer → Wind-player’s a fool, opening gift717 DownReveal answer → Resonant house in city in Gabon718 DownReveal answer → Furious518 DownReveal answer → Vase320 DownReveal answer → Police operations involving Republican? They’re pulled by those in power720 DownReveal answer → Garden feature? Regard common garden shrub being trimmed621 DownReveal answer → Early religious leader’s time imprisoned by Lord523 DownReveal answer → Tramps uncovered organ stop425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, March 20, 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.