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The Independent Crossword March 28 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 117 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 117 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 28 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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Two-person contest41 AcrossReveal answer → Royal Navy captain who died in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 177991 AcrossReveal answer → Get high on heroin. Injecting one mil makes body spasm61 AcrossReveal answer → Appropriate33 AcrossReveal answer → Covered decking in preserver and a hardener85 AcrossReveal answer → Musical time in which there are four beats in each bar136 AcrossReveal answer → Paper container87 AcrossReveal answer → US state48 AcrossReveal answer → Considering everything, one wants to shuffle off this coil89 AcrossReveal answer → Two-wheeled vehicle129 AcrossReveal answer → Whip round wearing floppy hat and tie610 AcrossReveal answer → Bring about610 AcrossReveal answer → Gloss over what Marie Curie's kids were1211 AcrossReveal answer → Holiday area613 AcrossReveal answer → Ditch Harket initially seen fronting Norwegian group413 AcrossReveal answer → J R R Tolkien's third forename513 AcrossReveal answer → A plant from Panorama ran that clip!814 AcrossReveal answer → "There are fascists pretending to be humanitarians, like ___ on a health kick eating only vegetarians" (Roger McGough)914 AcrossReveal answer → Police force1215 AcrossReveal answer → A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain715 AcrossReveal answer → Queen consort of France 1137–1152 and queen consort of England 1154–11891816 AcrossReveal answer → Happily, after vacation, presidential leader's no longer in charge! Entrancing thought!817 AcrossReveal answer → Ring back and make a disdainful sound418 AcrossReveal answer → A salmon up to two years of age418 AcrossReveal answer → Bill of fare419 AcrossReveal answer → Any of the ten black-belt grades of proficiency in judo, karate, etc320 AcrossReveal answer → Musical work820 AcrossReveal answer → Garden study or hut I rebuilt, with reluctant worker dismissed1220 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician Richard Melville Hall421 AcrossReveal answer → Drinking-place321 AcrossReveal answer → Amphibian422 AcrossReveal answer → Stately home in North Yorkshire used as the fictional Brideshead in adaptations of Brideshead Revisited1223 AcrossReveal answer → Unconventional sort of dodgy finance contract written in hurry623 AcrossReveal answer → Any of a number of very small extremely dense stars first discovered in 1967624 AcrossReveal answer → To be heavier than two huge bananas one's eaten824 AcrossReveal answer → His parts are rewritten for musicians825 AcrossReveal answer → Surname of the Duke of Westminster926 AcrossReveal answer → Fashionable second course626 AcrossReveal answer → River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virus527 AcrossReveal answer → City that is capital of the Thessaly periphery of Greece728 AcrossReveal answer → 1988 Stephen Frears film based on Christopher Hampton's theatrical adaptation of an 18th-century novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos1731 AcrossReveal answer → See 391234 AcrossReveal answer → Single by Ashford & Simpson that reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1985535 AcrossReveal answer → American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J Smith1737 AcrossReveal answer → West Indian batsman who ended his Test career in style with an innings of 258 at Christchurch in 19691239 AcrossReveal answer → The legal capital of Bolivia540 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Hear'Say that reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 2001942 AcrossReveal answer → See 231243 AcrossReveal answer → Mark ___, member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen who co-created and co-produced Sherlock with Steven Moffat646 AcrossReveal answer → The alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan, established in 1936447 AcrossReveal answer → Pop group whose hits included Tiger Feet and Lonely This Christmas348 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of trees to which the maple belongs452 AcrossReveal answer → Poet Laureate from 1850 to 18921853 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Helsinki756 AcrossReveal answer → In music for the violin family, to be plucked with the finger957 AcrossReveal answer → A large powerfully-built Japanese breed of dog558 AcrossReveal answer → An X-ray photograph of the brain1359 AcrossReveal answer → Region beyond the system of the earth and moon960 AcrossReveal answer →

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2005 war film based on US Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same name71 DownReveal answer → Durable fabric51 DownReveal answer → The first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar year152 DownReveal answer → Image of Billy, his third after wedding vow42 DownReveal answer → Put to death72 DownReveal answer → 1976 Mel Brooks film whose only audible line is spoken by Marcel Marceau113 DownReveal answer → Linked thing about one English paper's leader93 DownReveal answer → Artist's studio73 DownReveal answer → Beat yak with shortened device64 DownReveal answer → Hand digit54 DownReveal answer → The warrior son of Oisín and the fairy woman Niamh in Irish mythology54 DownReveal answer → University heads gambling, for example, on probability with second roll-over155 DownReveal answer → Mislaid45 DownReveal answer → 70s American TV series that starred David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine65 DownReveal answer → The Listener follows programme on before show again86 DownReveal answer → The Sunday preceding Ash Wednesday136 DownReveal answer → Computer criminal66 DownReveal answer → A slow musical movement such as the famous one from Mahler's Fifth Symphony featured in Luchino Visconti's film Death in Venice97 DownReveal answer → No one wants a student around time of birth57 DownReveal answer → See 4088 DownReveal answer → Charge copper getting appeal in lawsuit108 DownReveal answer → Umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated for its long whitish root79 DownReveal answer → Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls1010 DownReveal answer → The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangement711 DownReveal answer → Turned into ice611 DownReveal answer → She was barely noticed riding for £5 in Hackney1012 DownReveal answer → Paul ___, pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement612 DownReveal answer → Farm vehicle712 DownReveal answer → Hair cleaning product714 DownReveal answer → Understand fear Nick!915 DownReveal answer → Labels are ones that don't twist816 DownReveal answer → Young pigeon516 DownReveal answer → Wolf in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book517 DownReveal answer → Forearm bone417 DownReveal answer → Give up518 DownReveal answer → Cruise to the south of Cuba and America results in import tax619 DownReveal answer → Edwin Eugene ___, known as Buzz, US astronaut who was the second man to set foot on the moon619 DownReveal answer → Time old and young get refill when only a bit drunk521 DownReveal answer → England international goalkeeper whose last game was for Wrexham in 2023 at the age of 40922 DownReveal answer → Gets on when there's no time to get in422 DownReveal answer → Commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera considered the world's capital of perfume625 DownReveal answer → London-based record label launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley Symons726 DownReveal answer → Name given to Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a928 DownReveal answer → Narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy1529 DownReveal answer → Anton ___, Russian composer whose works include Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky730 DownReveal answer → Art movement that took its name from the title of an 1872 Claude Monet work1332 DownReveal answer → See 101033 DownReveal answer → Antonín ___, Czech composer best known for his Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New World636 DownReveal answer → 1983 album by June Tabor1138 DownReveal answer → Icelandic post-rock band fronted by Jónsi Birgisson840 DownReveal answer → The Mediterranean coast of France, including the French Riviera941 DownReveal answer → Subfamily of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages, comprising Polynesian and Melanesian744 DownReveal answer → Grazia ___, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926745 DownReveal answer → Comic book hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson, who first appeared in the Eagle in 1950749 DownReveal answer → Another name for the green woodpecker650 DownReveal answer → Name of the Black Prince, 1330–1376651 DownReveal answer → A type of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one554 DownReveal answer → Hymenopterous insect of the family Vespidae455 DownReveal answer → A Vietnamese rice noodle soup primarily made with beef or chicken357 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 28, 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.