The Independent Crossword March 23 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 104 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 104 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 23 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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First king of Israel41 AcrossReveal answer → Union pay for party and sport191 AcrossReveal answer → Rubber wheel-covering43 AcrossReveal answer → Matter for discussion127 AcrossReveal answer → Colour-changing lizard98 AcrossReveal answer → Elect310 AcrossReveal answer → Car manufacturer on power network610 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese port almost completely destroyed by the second atomic bomb dropped by the US in 1945811 AcrossReveal answer → Remember playground in its entirety611 AcrossReveal answer → Waylay612 AcrossReveal answer → Reddish dye obtained from the powdered leaves of the plant Lawsonia inermis512 AcrossReveal answer → Terribly tiny self-assembly boxes812 AcrossReveal answer → Block of drugs including speed seized at the start713 AcrossReveal answer → Come out614 AcrossReveal answer → Ultimately Francis Scott Fitzgerald's right – excellent714 AcrossReveal answer → A former French gold coin worth 20 francs814 AcrossReveal answer → British actor, famous for playing Grant Mitchell in EastEnders815 AcrossReveal answer → Michael ___, British TV and film director whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter516 AcrossReveal answer → I see grandparent stopping stupidly716 AcrossReveal answer → Possess316 AcrossReveal answer → American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate in Chicago817 AcrossReveal answer → Boiled sweet917 AcrossReveal answer → Once somebody new pursues terms for North Sea gas worker718 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 novel by Bret Easton Ellis named after a song by Elvis Costello1218 AcrossReveal answer → Gymnastics apparatus1219 AcrossReveal answer → Animals that have all four limbs specialised for walking1020 AcrossReveal answer → Chop421 AcrossReveal answer → Degenerate's time inside never to be forgotten821 AcrossReveal answer → River island422 AcrossReveal answer → Coniferous tree with needle-like evergreen leaves and erect barrel-shaped cones522 AcrossReveal answer → Dictator's annoyance with journalist reached its highest level623 AcrossReveal answer → Coral island of Japan, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands724 AcrossReveal answer → A&E dressing wound – doctor's stern and more urgently pressing624 AcrossReveal answer → Union advice: Uri Geller is a conman performing magic essentially1925 AcrossReveal answer → Canadian city that is capital of Alberta826 AcrossReveal answer → Argentine tennis player who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 19901627 AcrossReveal answer → An elementary school in France528 AcrossReveal answer → Eastern dish of spiced rice529 AcrossReveal answer → Kate Bush single that reached number five in the UK chart in 1980930 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Cape Verde531 AcrossReveal answer → Small edible marine decapod crustacean with a long tail and two pairs of pincers533 AcrossReveal answer → Sport played by the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, for example1634 AcrossReveal answer → Mineral form of mercuric sulphide that is the main commercial source of mercury836 AcrossReveal answer → See 401738 AcrossReveal answer → A medium-sized smooth-haired breed of dog with a short nose and a docked tail539 AcrossReveal answer → 1973 Western film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood1740 AcrossReveal answer → 2001 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman whose central character is Shadow1242 AcrossReveal answer → Private research university in California founded in 1891845 AcrossReveal answer → The first single from DJ Khaled’s fourth studio album Victory, featuring Usher, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and Drake547 AcrossReveal answer → 1984 Joe Dante film starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates848 AcrossReveal answer → A drink made with advocaat and lemonade850 AcrossReveal answer → Leo ___, singer-songwriter whose first hit single was The Show Must Go On in 1973551 AcrossReveal answer → Well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898 by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua852 AcrossReveal answer →

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The second largest city in Pakistan61 DownReveal answer → Latin dance style51 DownReveal answer → Job sorting out AI isn't ...92 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Topeka62 DownReveal answer → Worldwide92 DownReveal answer → ... ours oddly – experts must bring in 50 future consultants?73 DownReveal answer → The title character of Dick King-Smith's 1983 book The Sheep-Pig43 DownReveal answer → In addition33 DownReveal answer → Trick that is used to keep flat in retirement64 DownReveal answer → Caribbean island divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic104 DownReveal answer → Bitterness74 DownReveal answer → Group who had a US Top 10 hit with the single Bend Me, Shape Me in 1968165 DownReveal answer → Two classes prepared for printing75 DownReveal answer → With short, clipped notes85 DownReveal answer → Concur56 DownReveal answer → Perhaps Carmen's old fruit hat stripped down to the base56 DownReveal answer → The largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States66 DownReveal answer → Subject taught in commercial premises at last137 DownReveal answer → Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877127 DownReveal answer → Stars produce this type of family animation138 DownReveal answer → Organisation for which Captain Scarlet is an agent in the Gerry Anderson puppet series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons88 DownReveal answer → In cricket, a fielder who stands a little way behind and to the offside of the wicketkeeper49 DownReveal answer → In name only99 DownReveal answer → Novel by R D Blackmore subtitled A Romance of Exmoor1010 DownReveal answer → Intrude unlawfully811 DownReveal answer → June 21 in Canada, celebrating the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada2113 DownReveal answer → Choral work713 DownReveal answer → Saunter515 DownReveal answer → Suspect Brian Lara briefly touring India is one who might quieten the crowd?915 DownReveal answer → Soap hotel left out working eventually717 DownReveal answer → Cook518 DownReveal answer → Costume Peter Lorre conclusively wears to horrify719 DownReveal answer → A stock comic character originating in the commedia dell’arte, usually represented in diamond-patterned multicoloured tights and a black mask919 DownReveal answer → Light dessert potentially following meat course's conclusion620 DownReveal answer → Diving bird320 DownReveal answer → 1929 German silent film directed by G W Pabst and starring Louise Brooks1121 DownReveal answer → In Ulster, a dish of mashed potatoes and spring onions or leeks522 DownReveal answer → Trump exposed party522 DownReveal answer → American actress whose films include Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne1123 DownReveal answer → The first film the Marx Brothers made for MGM after their departure from Paramount1625 DownReveal answer → Genus of plants that includes the spurges and poinsettia928 DownReveal answer → American oboist who wrote the 2005 memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music1230 DownReveal answer → Larry ___, harmonica-player who won an Oscar nomination for his work on the soundtrack of the 1953 film Genevieve532 DownReveal answer → A member of a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan listed in Genesis as being descended from Ham1033 DownReveal answer → London station opened in 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan Railway1035 DownReveal answer → Scottish castle purchased by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert in 1852837 DownReveal answer → Form of Islam practised by guitarist Richard Thompson641 DownReveal answer → The kitchen of a ship, boat or aircraft643 DownReveal answer → Former name of the Polish city of Gdansk644 DownReveal answer → A small semiaquatic amphibian such as Triturus vulgaris446 DownReveal answer → The legal alias of the Archbishops of York449 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 23, 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.