The Independent Crossword March 21 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 117 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 117 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 21 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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Across

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Extremely venomous marine invertebrate belonging to the class Cubozoa121 AcrossReveal answer → Knowledge41 AcrossReveal answer → Ensnared63 AcrossReveal answer → Italian dessert87 AcrossReveal answer → 17 Across in Don Quixote, say?117 AcrossReveal answer → Inter48 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish striker who joined Chelsea from Barcelona in 2024 and joined Sunderland on a season-long loan in 202588 AcrossReveal answer → Tactless109 AcrossReveal answer → 'emp remains39 AcrossReveal answer → Monkey shaving head of chicken or mouse310 AcrossReveal answer → Scribe has wit, or funny 7 Across?1111 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish dish611 AcrossReveal answer → Evergreen gilt-edged artist, initial on cruciverbal melody912 AcrossReveal answer → Remember613 AcrossReveal answer → Interviewer who wrote a series of children's books about The Woofits1613 AcrossReveal answer → A group or series of nine614 AcrossReveal answer → Pound notes and the euros for gambler, all in the middle514 AcrossReveal answer → Old name for a straight thrust in fencing815 AcrossReveal answer → Desolate area1015 AcrossReveal answer → A drink knocked back, one guzzled in the Crown and Sceptre, say?716 AcrossReveal answer → Tree of the genus Diospyros that has hard dark wood517 AcrossReveal answer → Deliverer of final thrust in business portal for the auditor?717 AcrossReveal answer → Popular name for The Ballad of Barry and Freda by Victoria Wood818 AcrossReveal answer → Clenched hand419 AcrossReveal answer → A little belch as mouth opening520 AcrossReveal answer → Championing820 AcrossReveal answer → North American term for begging1120 AcrossReveal answer → British boxer who won the WBC Light Heavyweight crown in 19741021 AcrossReveal answer → Vitality621 AcrossReveal answer → Canvas shelter422 AcrossReveal answer → Alter and snip off subheading923 AcrossReveal answer → In conversation, manipulate PM, 7 Across?1124 AcrossReveal answer → Highly seasoned smoked beef824 AcrossReveal answer → Old fox from period looking back?326 AcrossReveal answer → Charge Native Americans in hearing?327 AcrossReveal answer → The second largest city in Iran727 AcrossReveal answer → First missing, luck diminished for 7 Across?1128 AcrossReveal answer → City in N Italy on the Adige River629 AcrossReveal answer → Night constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing who declares that "comparisons are odorous"830 AcrossReveal answer → Character in the TV series Supernatural played by Jensen Ackles1431 AcrossReveal answer → Subtitle of The Gold Diggers' Song from the film Gold Diggers of 19331434 AcrossReveal answer → Street parade with music, which occurs in many towns across The Bahamas on Boxing Day and New Year's Day836 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient Greek city on Mount Parnassus that was the site of the most famous oracle of Apollo637 AcrossReveal answer → Type of tongueless shoe with lacing up the instep740 AcrossReveal answer → Religion at the heart of Bellini's opera Norma841 AcrossReveal answer → Crater on Mercury that overlays the rim of the Vyasa crater1042 AcrossReveal answer → Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner for Affliction1143 AcrossReveal answer → US state whose capital is Denver847 AcrossReveal answer → Dry-cured ham from Spain550 AcrossReveal answer → The only man to have twice won all four Grand Slam tennis singles titles in the same year851 AcrossReveal answer → 1944 Billy Wilder film starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G Robinson1552 AcrossReveal answer → 1916 song by W C Handy named after a place in Memphis, Tennessee1654 AcrossReveal answer → German for 'good day'856 AcrossReveal answer → Traditional author of the first Gospel1257 AcrossReveal answer →

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Allies, after uprising, shot dead81 DownReveal answer → Den41 DownReveal answer → Simian berk monkeying around for brief periods abroad, say102 DownReveal answer → A broad sash tied in a large flat bow at the back, worn by Japanese women and children as part of the national costume32 DownReveal answer → Mobile phone facility72 DownReveal answer → 4 Down short of the stuff of 7 Across in butt43 DownReveal answer → Suffolk-born Romantic painter whose works include Dedham Vale and The Hay Wain133 DownReveal answer → Warship73 DownReveal answer → Hunt perhaps passing through Stuttgart is thrilling64 DownReveal answer → The third largest city in Latvia74 DownReveal answer → Earth pigment54 DownReveal answer → 1909 song by John H Flynn and Will D Cobb sung by Jeanette MacDonald in the film Broadway Serenade115 DownReveal answer → Diver referring to classic flips65 DownReveal answer → Large insect85 DownReveal answer → Variety46 DownReveal answer → Last on coach to occupy seat, I made it by a whisker!46 DownReveal answer → Inhabitant of a country that came into being on May 14, 194876 DownReveal answer → Stuff article between baked item and loaf, both cut97 DownReveal answer → Chinese name for the Amur River127 DownReveal answer → Design short shelf filled with endless fish78 DownReveal answer → Jazz standard written by pianist Erroll Garner in 195458 DownReveal answer → Adjective relating to the kidneys59 DownReveal answer → Any of the regions in Ireland in which Irish Gaelic is the vernacular speech910 DownReveal answer → Cricket ground building810 DownReveal answer → Soft drink "made in Scotland from girders," according to its advertising campaign611 DownReveal answer → Magic712 DownReveal answer → Pen name of the Burmese-born Scottish author H H Munro412 DownReveal answer → Coming to the table, a show of strength as marines in war with steel at sea1013 DownReveal answer → Outfit714 DownReveal answer → Local employee bound to stop trade915 DownReveal answer → 1989 film starring Gregory Hines and featuring Sammy Davis Jr in his final film appearance316 DownReveal answer → Discourage516 DownReveal answer → Catch sight of417 DownReveal answer → £100,000 prize fund put up for hairstyle718 DownReveal answer → Manner of walking418 DownReveal answer → In a particular way, battered tin wrapped in paper819 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, the mother of Perseus by Zeus, who came to her in prison as a shower of gold519 DownReveal answer → Actor born Marion Morrison in 1907921 DownReveal answer → Author, 7 across?621 DownReveal answer → Province of China between the Yangtze River and the Nan Ling Mountains522 DownReveal answer → Ephemeral thing could work?622 DownReveal answer → French for "between us"923 DownReveal answer → Flier into which slipped small joke424 DownReveal answer → Yucky cookie, surface licked off425 DownReveal answer → 2001 novel by Ian McEwan925 DownReveal answer → Brother of Moses who stretched out his rod in order to bring on the first three plagues, in the Old Testament526 DownReveal answer → See 52 Across1527 DownReveal answer → Soft light woollen fabric with a slight nap728 DownReveal answer → A person who adheres to India's dominant religion532 DownReveal answer → Group who topped the UK singles chart in 1983 with True1333 DownReveal answer → Peter ___, British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate after whom the so-called God particle is named535 DownReveal answer → English heavy metal band whose albums include Stained Class and British Steel1136 DownReveal answer → Greek philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens538 DownReveal answer → Family of plants that includes Gladiolus and Crocus939 DownReveal answer → 1972 play by Tom Stoppard that satirises academic philosophy743 DownReveal answer → Gian Carlo ___, composer of the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors744 DownReveal answer → The muskrat species745 DownReveal answer → Simon ___, writer best known for creating the sitcom Men Behaving Badly346 DownReveal answer → 1847 Herman Melville novel subtitled A Narrative of the South Seas448 DownReveal answer → Nontechnical name for the eye socket549 DownReveal answer → See 71250 DownReveal answer → See 11653 DownReveal answer → River that flows from near Simonsbath, Somerset, to Lyme Bay355 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 21, 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.