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The Independent Crossword March 5 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword March 5 2026 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 54 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#
Politicians in London broadcast across German cityGLASGOW7Across1 Sudden convulsionsFITS4Across1 Go out withDATE4Across3 Money taken from country club certainly not brought backREVENUE7Across5 BanterBADINAGE8Across7 Dishonest scheme (Informal)SCAM4Across8 HenceTHEREFORE9Across9 Cabinet fought over housing many timesOFTEN5Across9 Years after one who might be Educating Rita's lead features in BetrayalTREACHERY9Across10 Dynamic influencesFORCES6Across11 Artist occupying lodgings following old lady runs carnivalMARDIGRAS9Across11 Eggs prepared - that is always lacking in English dishROSTI5Across12 Play guitar, tense, pale, and close to cryingTWANG5Across13 AirstripRUNWAY6Across13 Plant containerFLOWERPOT9Across14 A new singer avoiding current presenterANCHORMAN9Across15 Female horseMARE4Across17 American recalled a woman's love for comic characterSUPERHERO9Across18 Ordinary sharesEQUITIES8Across18 Slightly damage second part of shirtSCUFF5Across19 Auction itemsLOTS4Across19 ConversationCHAT4Across20 Left with novel propositionLEMMA5Across21 Notwithstanding fines, I opt to get wreckedINSPITEOF9Across23 One's scored highly against test upon leaving instituteCONTRALTO9Across25 Gloomy song for one free to returnDIRGE5Across26 Area chief stopping New York's state of lawlessnessANARCHY7Across27 Expressionless and very plain, oddlyDEADPAN7Across28

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Ring woman in Paris entertained by filthGROMMET7Down1 Small partFRACTION8Down1 Cruelly fed tramp a choking hazardAFTERDAMP9Down2 HackneyedTRITE5Down2 Make outDISCERN7Down3 Greens periodically supported by two brilliant peopleGENII5Down3 Washington police finally arresting target involved in scandalWATERGATE9Down4 Hard woodTEAK4Down4 Set of thirteenBAKERSDOZEN11Down5 Once river has risen, catches flightless birdsRHEAS5Down5 I start to cry, overwhelmed by thrashing saviour suffered for anotherVICARIOUS9Down6 IngeniousRESOURCEFUL11Down6 Note European drug detective's obligationsNEEDS5Down7 In literature, delightful cathedral city's giant's contentELYSIAN7Down8 AbuseMALTREAT8Down10 Money chestsCOFFERS7Down12 Spice Girl and Irishman barely agedGERIATRIC9Down14 Small piecePATCH5Down15 What are you doing about promise broken by Rachel's on-off partner?CROSSWORD9Down16 Mexican snackTACO4Down16 Unremarkable cheese matures, drunk with port when half-cutMOUSETRAP9Down17 Groups obsessed with ChatGPT perhaps set up countrySTLUCIA7Down18 Rugby union team provided support after France beaten at lastFIFTEEN7Down20 Group of intelligence analysts discontented about being subordinate to soldiersMENSA5Down22 Left captivated by my part of ScotlandISLAY5Down23 In the military, I help part of this country after revolutionINDIA5Down24

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, March 5, 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.