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The Independent Crossword March 28 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 117 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword March 28 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 117 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Two-person contestDUEL4Across1 Royal Navy captain who died in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779JAMESCOOK9Across1 Get high on heroin. Injecting one mil makes body spasmHICCUP6Across1 AppropriateAPT3Across3 Covered decking in preserver and a hardenerVERANDAH8Across5 Musical time in which there are four beats in each barQUADRUPLETIME13Across6 Paper containerENVELOPE8Across7 US stateUTAH4Across8 Considering everything, one wants to shuffle off this coilHOLISTIC8Across9 Two-wheeled vehicleMOUNTAINBIKE12Across9 Whip round wearing floppy hat and tieATTACH6Across10 Bring aboutEFFECT6Across10 Gloss over what Marie Curie's kids wereFRENCHPOLISH12Across11 Holiday areaRESORT6Across13 Ditch Harket initially seen fronting Norwegian groupHAHA4Across13 J R R Tolkien's third forenameREUEL5Across13 A plant from Panorama ran that clip!AMARANTH8Across14 "There are fascists pretending to be humanitarians, like ___ on a health kick eating only vegetarians" (Roger McGough)CANNIBALS9Across14 Police forceCONSTABULARY12Across15 A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrainRONDEAU7Across15 Queen consort of France 1137–1152 and queen consort of England 1154–1189ELEANOROFAQUITAINE18Across16 Happily, after vacation, presidential leader's no longer in charge! Entrancing thought!HYPNOTIC8Across17 Ring back and make a disdainful soundPOOH4Across18 A salmon up to two years of agePARR4Across18 Bill of fareMENU4Across19 Any of the ten black-belt grades of proficiency in judo, karate, etcDAN3Across20 Musical workTONEPOEM8Across20 Garden study or hut I rebuilt, with reluctant worker dismissedHORTICULTURE12Across20 Stage name of American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician Richard Melville HallMOBY4Across21 Drinking-placeBAR3Across21 AmphibianTOAD4Across22 Stately home in North Yorkshire used as the fictional Brideshead in adaptations of Brideshead RevisitedCASTLEHOWARD12Across23 Unconventional sort of dodgy finance contract written in hurryHIPPIE6Across23 Any of a number of very small extremely dense stars first discovered in 1967PULSAR6Across24 To be heavier than two huge bananas one's eatenOUTWEIGH8Across24 His parts are rewritten for musiciansHARPISTS8Across25 Surname of the Duke of WestminsterGROSVENOR9Across26 Fashionable second courseMODISH6Across26 River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virusEBOLA5Across27 City that is capital of the Thessaly periphery of GreeceLARISSA7Across28 1988 Stephen Frears film based on Christopher Hampton's theatrical adaptation of an 18th-century novel by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosDANGEROUSLIAISONS17Across31 See 39SEYMOURNURSE12Across34 Single by Ashford & Simpson that reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1985SOLID5Across35 American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J SmithTHEVAMPIREDIARIES17Across37 West Indian batsman who ended his Test career in style with an innings of 258 at Christchurch in 1969SEYMOURNURSE12Across39 The legal capital of BoliviaSUCRE5Across40 Song by Hear'Say that reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 2001EVERYBODY9Across42 See 23CASTLEHOWARD12Across43 Mark ___, member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen who co-created and co-produced Sherlock with Steven MoffatGATISS6Across46 The alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan, established in 1936AXIS4Across47 Pop group whose hits included Tiger Feet and Lonely This ChristmasMUD3Across48 Genus of trees to which the maple belongsACER4Across52 Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892ALFREDLORDTENNYSON18Across53 Country whose capital is HelsinkiFINLAND7Across56 In music for the violin family, to be plucked with the fingerPIZZICATO9Across57 A large powerfully-built Japanese breed of dogAKITA5Across58 An X-ray photograph of the brainENCEPHALOGRAM13Across59 Region beyond the system of the earth and moonDEEPSPACE9Across60

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2005 war film based on US Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same nameJARHEAD7Down1 Durable fabricDENIM5Down1 The first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar yearMAUREENCONNOLLY15Down2 Image of Billy, his third after wedding vowIDOL4Down2 Put to deathEXECUTE7Down2 1976 Mel Brooks film whose only audible line is spoken by Marcel MarceauSILENTMOVIE11Down3 Linked thing about one English paper's leaderCHIEFTAIN9Down3 Artist's studioATELIER7Down3 Beat yak with shortened devicePATTER6Down4 Hand digitTHUMB5Down4 The warrior son of Oisín and the fairy woman Niamh in Irish mythologyOSCAR5Down4 University heads gambling, for example, on probability with second roll-overVICECHANCELLORS15Down5 MislaidLOST4Down5 70s American TV series that starred David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang CaineKUNGFU6Down5 The Listener follows programme on before show againREAPPEAR8Down6 The Sunday preceding Ash WednesdayQUINQUAGESIMA13Down6 Computer criminalHACKER6Down6 A slow musical movement such as the famous one from Mahler's Fifth Symphony featured in Luchino Visconti's film Death in VeniceADAGIETTO9Down7 No one wants a student around time of birthNATAL5Down7 See 40SIGURROS8Down8 Charge copper getting appeal in lawsuitACCUSATION10Down8 Umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated for its long whitish rootPARSNIP7Down9 Irish author whose novels include The Country GirlsEDNAOBRIEN10Down10 The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangementIKEBANA7Down11 Turned into iceFROZEN6Down11 She was barely noticed riding for £5 in HackneyLADYGODIVA10Down12 Paul ___, pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movementELUARD6Down12 Farm vehicleTRACTOR7Down12 Hair cleaning productSHAMPOO7Down14 Understand fear Nick!APPREHEND9Down15 Labels are ones that don't twistSTICKERS8Down16 Young pigeonSQUAB5Down16 Wolf in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle BookAKELA5Down17 Forearm boneULNA4Down17 Give upYIELD5Down18 Cruise to the south of Cuba and America results in import taxCUSTOM6Down19 Edwin Eugene ___, known as Buzz, US astronaut who was the second man to set foot on the moonALDRIN6Down19 Time old and young get refill when only a bit drunkTOPUP5Down21 England international goalkeeper whose last game was for Wrexham in 2023 at the age of 40BENFOSTER9Down22 Gets on when there's no time to get inAGES4Down22 Commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera considered the world's capital of perfumeGRASSE6Down25 London-based record label launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley SymonsGODISCS7Down26 Name given to Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81aLESADIEUX9Down28 Narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of ItalySTRAITOFMESSINA15Down29 Anton ___, Russian composer whose works include Variations on a Theme of TchaikovskyARENSKY7Down30 Art movement that took its name from the title of an 1872 Claude Monet workIMPRESSIONISM13Down32 See 10EDNAOBRIEN10Down33 Antonín ___, Czech composer best known for his Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New WorldDVORAK6Down36 1983 album by June TaborABYSSINIANS11Down38 Icelandic post-rock band fronted by Jónsi BirgissonSIGURROS8Down40 The Mediterranean coast of France, including the French RivieraCOTEDAZUR9Down41 Subfamily of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages, comprising Polynesian and MelanesianOCEANIC7Down44 Grazia ___, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926DELEDDA7Down45 Comic book hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson, who first appeared in the Eagle in 1950DANDARE7Down49 Another name for the green woodpeckerYAFFLE6Down50 Name of the Black Prince, 1330–1376EDWARD6Down51 A type of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter oneEPODE5Down54 Hymenopterous insect of the family VespidaeWASP4Down55 A Vietnamese rice noodle soup primarily made with beef or chickenPHO3Down57

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 28, 2026. 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.